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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
12. The content of cognition.
13. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
14. A boy or man.
15. Soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog v 1.
16. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
21. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
22. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
26. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
27. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
38. Young sheep.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
46. Seed of a pea plant.
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1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. Jordan's port.
3. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
5. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
6. A member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries.
7. A genus of Ploceidae.
8. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Squash bugs.
18. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
19. A large fleet.
24. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
30. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
32. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. Slightly wet.
36. A French abbot.
37. A quantity of no importance.
39. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
42. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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