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1. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
4. A slender double-reed instrument.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
12. An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea v 1.
13. A human limb.
14. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
15. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines.
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
20. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
22. The second largest city in Tunisia.
24. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
25. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
28. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
31. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
36. King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975).
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
45. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
46. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.
47. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
3. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant.
7. The fatty flesh of eel.
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. Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio.
19. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy.
29. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
30. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
32. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
33. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
34. 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.
37. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
39. The part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth.
42. A state in northwestern North America.
43. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
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