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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. A road that takes traffic around the edge of a town.
10. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
13. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
14. Of or relating to the spleen.
15. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
16. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
18. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
19. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
20. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
23. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
26. A unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
29. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
33. Take in solid food.
36. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
37. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
40. At full speed.
41. Australian moundbird.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
50. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. God of love and erotic desire.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
59. Jordan's port.
60. Very dark black.
61. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
62. Obvious and dull.
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
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1. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
2. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
3. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
4. Tired to the point of exhaustion.
5. A Loloish language.
6. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
9. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
10. Type genus of the Amiidae.
11. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
12. The act of scanning.
17. Any of various small biting flies.
21. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
22. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
27. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
30. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
31. A local computer network for communication between computers.
32. 10 grams.
34. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
35. A Loloish language.
38. Capital and largest city of the Ukraine.
39. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
43. A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere.
45. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
46. Relieve from military service.
47. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. Before noon.
51. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
52. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
54. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
55. The bill in a restaurant.
56. A master's degree in business.
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