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1. An informal term for a father.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
13. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
17. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
18. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
20. The cry made by sheep.
23. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
25. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. Tag the base runner to get him out.
48. 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).
49. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. A light touch or stroke.
4. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
5. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
6. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
7. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A Loloish language.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
21. 32nd President of the United States.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. An enclosed space.
32. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. Jordan's port.
36. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
39. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
40. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
42. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
43. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
45. A state in northwestern North America.
46. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
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