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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Highly excited.
8. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
11. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
16. 10 grams.
17. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
27. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
31. Capital of Vanuatu.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
43. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
47. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
50. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
53. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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1. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
2. An informal term for a father.
3. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
4. An associate degree in nursing.
5. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
10. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
21. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
22. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
25. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. A three-year law degree.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
39. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
40. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. South African term for `boss'.
44. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
45. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
46. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
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