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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
10. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
13. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
14. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
18. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
19. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
20. Used of walls.
22. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A square dance figure.
29. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
36. An attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
42. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
43. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
46. A member of the Siouan people of the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
48. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
50. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
52. (British) A form of football played with an oval ball.
54. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
58. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
59. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
61. The cry made by sheep.
62. God of the underworld.
63. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
65. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
66. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
67. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
68. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
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1. A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing.
2. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
3. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
4. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
10. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
11. On or toward the lee.
12. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
23. In bed.
25. A state in east central United States.
28. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
30. Chief port of Yemen.
31. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
32. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
39. A citizen of an English borough.
41. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
44. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
45. United States space station.
47. An awkward stupid person.
49. The audible part of a transmitted signal.
50. Type genus of the Anatidae.
51. A genus of Platalea.
53. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
55. A French abbot.
56. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
57. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
60. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
64. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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