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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
9. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. The action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack.
15. A connecting point at which several lines come together.
16. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
17. A long pointed rod used as a weapon.
18. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
19. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
21. Used of high or hilly country.
24. Take by theft.
25. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
30. A medium for oil-paints.
33. A white powder with a pleasant taste and odor.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
37. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
47. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
49. Lower in esteem.
50. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
54. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
55. Obvious and dull.
59. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
60. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
61. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
63. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
64. A young woman making her debut into society.
65. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
66. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
5. A quantity of no importance.
6. Cattle that are reared for their meat.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
9. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
10. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
11. Chief port of Yemen.
12. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
20. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
22. One of the common people.
23. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
28. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
29. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
31. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
32. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
35. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
38. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
39. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
41. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
42. A decree that prohibits something.
44. Make less active or intense.
45. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
51. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
52. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
53. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
57. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
58. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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