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1. Select as an alternative.
4. In bed.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
12. Not widely known.
13. A human limb.
14. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
15. Type genus of the Anatidae.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
20. A white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2).
22. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
26. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
33. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
37. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
41. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
45. (informal) Exceptionally good.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. Type genus of the Pipidae.
3. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
4. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
5. Obvious and dull.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
8. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
9. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
10. A city in northern India.
18. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
19. God of death.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
31. Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.
32. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. A tributary of the Rhine.
35. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. The cry made by sheep.
39. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
40. (informal) A witty amusing person who makes jokes.
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