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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
10. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. Marked by smartness in dress and manners.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Of great mass.
19. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. One million periods per second.
25. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
28. Meat from an adult domestic bovine.
31. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
34. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
38. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
42. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
44. (of linens or clothes) Smoothed with a hot iron.
45. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
46. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
47. A genus of Indriidae.
54. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. A deficiency of red blood cells.
60. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
61. A light touch or stroke.
62. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
63. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A cgs unit of work or energy.
5. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
6. Jordan's port.
7. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
8. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
9. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
10. Heal or recover.
11. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
18. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
20. An Asian river between China and Russia.
24. A radioactive transuranic element.
26. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
27. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
29. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
32. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
33. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
35. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
36. Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc..
37. An island northwest of Wales.
39. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
40. A republic in West Africa.
41. A person who is not very bright.
43. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
48. Capital of Vanuatu.
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
50. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
56. A doctor's degree in education.
59. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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