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1. The tenth month of the Hindu calendar.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.
11. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
12. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
15. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
20. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
22. The sixth month of the civil year.
25. Suggestive of the supernatural.
29. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A flexible container with a single opening.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
43. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
46. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
47. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
48. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
49. The basic unit of money in Romania.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
52. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
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1. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
2. Of someone who has not been married.
3. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
4. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
5. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
16. The cry made by sheep.
19. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
21. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
23. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
24. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. A motley assortment of things.
35. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
37. 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.
38. An elaborate song for solo voice.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. A friendly nation.
41. The content of cognition.
42. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
44. Wild and domestic cattle.
45. The address of a web page on the world wide web.
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