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1. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
4. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
10. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
13. A three-year law degree.
14. A knife resembling a cleaver.
15. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. Inability to walk.
18. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
19. Common Indian weaverbird.
21. A loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen.
23. Divulge information or secrets.
25. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
26. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. A French abbot.
35. A town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. Brightly colored and showy.
40. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
41. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
44. Framework for holding objects.
46. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
48. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
50. A state in northwestern North America.
53. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
56. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
60. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
65. A port city in southwestern Iran.
67. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
68. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
69. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
70. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Be obedient to.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
6. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle.
8. The craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance).
9. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
10. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
20. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
28. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
30. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. (informal) Exceptionally good.
33. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
34. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
36. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.
38. Offering fun and gaiety.
42. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
51. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
52. Any taillike structure.
53. An electrically charged particle.
54. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
55. A small cake leavened with yeast.
57. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
58. In bed.
59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
61. The bill in a restaurant.
62. A shape that sags.
66. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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