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1. (informal) Exceptionally good.
5. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
8. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
11. River in eastern Asia.
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 primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. The basic unit of money in Iran.
15. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
16. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
17. A doctor's degree in religion.
18. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
28. 1/10 gram.
29. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
33. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. A unit of pressure.
45. Produced by a manufacturing process.
46. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
47. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
48. A primeval personification of air and breath.
49. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
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1. Explorer and United States naval officer.
2. A sudden short attack.
3. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
4. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
5. Extremely pleasing.
6. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
7. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
8. An oil port in southern Iraq.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
19. Military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
22. A resource.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
30. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
32. A light touch or stroke.
34. A ridge that forms a seam between two parts.
35. State in northeastern India.
36. The state or fact of existing.
38. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
39. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
43. (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness.
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