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1. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
17. A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative.
18. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
19. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
23. In bed.
27. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. An informal term for a father.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
48. Offering fun and gaiety.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. The shore of a sea or ocean.
2. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
3. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
4. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
7. A state in northwestern North America.
8. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
15. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
16. Common Indian weaverbird.
20. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
21. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
22. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. The square of a body of any size of type.
32. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
40. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
41. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
42. A master's degree in business.
45. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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