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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. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A human limb.
12. Avatar of Vishnu.
13. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
14. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
15. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. By bad luck.
19. Type genus of the Amiidae.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
25. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
28. A pilgrim who journeys to Mecca.
32. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
34. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
42. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
47. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
48. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
49. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
51. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
52. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
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1. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
2. Made of fir or pine.
3. A city in northern India.
4. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
7. Of or relating to or characteristic of Denmark or the Danes.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. The act of scanning.
20. A port city in southwestern Iran.
23. Jordan's port.
26. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
27. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. A light touch or stroke.
30. A son who has the same first name as his father.
31. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
33. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
37. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. South African term for `boss'.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
44. A doctor's degree in education.
45. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
46. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
47. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
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