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1. God of love and erotic desire.
5. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
8. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
11. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
12. A local computer network for communication between computers.
13. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
14. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
16. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
17. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
20. An electrically charged particle.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
31. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
40. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
42. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
43. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
44. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
47. The content of cognition.
48. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
49. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
50. A young male horse under the age of four.
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1. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
2. Pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia.
3. A person of subnormal intelligence.
4. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
5. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
6. An informal term for a father.
7. Type genus of the Anatidae.
8. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
9. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
10. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
18. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
19. An informal term for a father.
21. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. A radioactive transuranic element.
23. State in northeastern India.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. Informal terms for a mother.
28. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
29. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
38. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
39. Any of various small biting flies.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. An associate degree in nursing.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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