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1. An accountant certified by the state.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
7. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
11. Noisy talk.
12. The fatty flesh of eel.
13. American novelist (1909-1955).
14. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
16. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
17. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. Type genus of the Anatidae.
22. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. In bed.
30. An evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
34. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
43. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
53. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
54. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
55. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
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1. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
2. A genus of Ploceidae.
3. A state in northwestern North America.
4. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
5. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
6. By bad luck.
7. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
10. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians.
15. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. 1 species.
21. A master's degree in fine arts.
24. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A flexible container with a single opening.
28. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. 1 species.
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
47. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
48. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
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