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1. Not in operation or operational.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. A speech defect that involves pronouncing s like voiceless th and z like voiced th.
11. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
12. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
27. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
30. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
32. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
35. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
40. A radioactive transuranic element.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Small rounded bread either plain or sweet.
47. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
48. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
49. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
50. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
51. Flat and uninspiring.
52. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
3. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
4. An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force).
5. A light touch or stroke.
6. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. A long-playing phonograph record.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. The act of scanning.
10. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
15. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
16. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. A young woman making her debut into society.
23. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
24. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
26. A city in the European part of Russia.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
31. The face or front of a building.
33. (Zoroastrianism) Title for benevolent deities.
34. A city in northeastern France in Lorraine.
37. Type genus of the Gavidae.
38. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
43. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
44. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
45. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
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