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1. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. Stalk of a moss capsule.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. Make a plat of.
14. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
19. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
24. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
32. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
35. A city in east central Texas.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
43. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia).
45. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
46. Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).
47. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
48. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
49. A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature.
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1. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.
2. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
3. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
4. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
5. An informal term for a father.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
8. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
9. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
10. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
23. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
25. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
29. (Greek mythology) The Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry.
30. A port in southwestern Scotland.
31. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
33. Greek mythology.
34. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
36. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
37. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
40. A unit of pain intensity.
41. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
42. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
43. Unknown god.
44. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
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