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1. South African term for `boss'.
5. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
8. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
11. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
12. An associate degree in applied science.
13. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
14. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
17. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
18. An informal term for a father.
20. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
22. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. The capital of Croatia.
28. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Found along western Atlantic coast.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
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1. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
4. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
5. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
6. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
9. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
10. European freshwater fish resembling the roach.
15. An awkward stupid person.
16. God of wealth and love.
19. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
21. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
23. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
34. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
35. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
37. A city in northern India.
38. Noisy talk.
39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
43. Extremely pleasing.
47. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
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