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1. An accidental happening.
4. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
10. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
13. Used of a single unit or thing.
14. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
15. A boy or man.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. An island in the Persian Gulf.
19. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
22. Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged.
25. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
29. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. A Hindu prince or king in India.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
38. One who works hard at boring tasks.
41. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
42. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
44. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
48. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
55. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
57. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
58. A plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing.
61. A transuranic element.
62. Imagined as in a play.
63. City in Sudan.
64. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
3. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. A city in southeastern Spain.
9. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
10. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
11. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
21. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
23. A bachelor's degree in science.
24. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
27. Heal or recover.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. How long something has existed.
32. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
33. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
34. A primeval personification of air and breath.
39. A French abbot.
40. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
43. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
45. Type genus of the Amiidae.
46. Occurring or done each day.
47. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
48. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
49. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
50. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
51. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
52. Material used to daub walls.
53. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
54. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
56. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
59. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
60. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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