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1. Take in solid food.
4. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
12. A flexible container with a single opening.
13. Type genus of the Anatidae.
14. A period of time spent sleeping.
15. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
16. Common Indian weaverbird.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
21. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
28. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
30. A city in northern India.
32. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. A long-playing phonograph record.
42. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. A fraudulent business scheme.
48. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
49. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
50. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
51. A doctor's degree in education.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
2. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
3. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
5. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
10. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
18. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
20. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A cgs unit of work or energy.
29. Made of fir or pine.
31. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
35. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
36. A branch of the Tai languages.
37. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. God of love and erotic desire.
43. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
44. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
45. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
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