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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Covered with paving material.
10. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
15. The fatty flesh of eel.
16. By bad luck.
18. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
19. God of wealth and love.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization.
24. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
25. Fill with high spirits.
26. A Nilotic language.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. Not only so, but.
33. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
37. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
39. The cry made by sheep.
44. An advantageous purchase.
47. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. The vast grassy plains of northern Argentina.
55. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
57. An ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean.
58. How long something has existed.
59. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
61. The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.
62. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeastern Mali and northern Ghana.
63. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
64. The chance to speak.
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1. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
2. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. Covered with paving material.
8. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
9. A telegram sent abroad.
10. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
11. Make children.
12. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
17. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
20. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
22. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
27. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
28. The seventh and last day of the week.
30. English monk and scholar (672-735).
32. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
34. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
35. An associate degree in applied science.
36. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
38. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
43. Chief port of Yemen.
45. A city in southeastern South Korea.
46. A hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire.
50. A fraudulent business scheme.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. Informal terms for a meal.
53. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
54. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another.
56. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
57. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
60. A state in New England.
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