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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
8. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
11. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
12. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
26. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
27. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
31. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
33. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
35. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
44. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
49. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
50. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
51. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
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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. The sign language used in the United States.
5. The capital of Nationalist China.
6. How long something has existed.
7. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
8. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
9. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
10. God of death.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
19. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
21. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
22. The cry made by sheep.
24. Being one more than fifty.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
28. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. Away from the mouth or oral region.
34. A protective structure resembling a scale.
38. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
45. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
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