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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
11. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
14. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
15. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
16. A slight amount or degree of difference.
17. Unknown god.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. Lower in esteem.
21. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
22. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
24. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
27. Short and fat.
28. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
37. The protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes.
40. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
42. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. A decree that prohibits something.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A crystal of snow.
2. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
3. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
4. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
7. Fallow deer.
8. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
9. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
10. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
20. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
23. Divulge information or secrets.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
29. United States abolitionist (1786-1865).
30. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
34. A small nail.
35. A Mid-Atlantic state.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
44. Informal terms for a mother.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
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