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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
8. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
11. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
12. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
15. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
16. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
17. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
20. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
21. The act of scanning.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. Call upon in supplication.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
28. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
31. Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or gray eyes.
35. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
39. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
40. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
41. An Eskimo hut.
44. Any of several imperial dynasties of China ruling from 220 to 265 and from 386 to 556.
45. Wild and domestic cattle.
46. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
47. A doctor's degree in education.
48. In or of the month preceding the present one.
49. God of love and erotic desire.
50. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. Strips of potato fried in deep fat.
2. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
3. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
5. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
6. Being one more than fifty.
7. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
8. Wearing or provided with clothing.
9. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
10. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
18. A deficiency of red blood cells.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
32. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
33. Performance of moral or religious acts.
34. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
36. Absent without permission.
37. In or of the present month.
38. Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
43. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
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