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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
7. A French abbot.
11. The fatty flesh of eel.
12. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
13. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
14. An enclosed space.
15. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
17. A light touch or stroke.
18. The second largest city in Tunisia.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A flexible container with a single opening.
25. (linguistics) Relating to the dative case.
29. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Jordan's port.
42. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
45. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
46. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
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1. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
2. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
3. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
4. A member of the Siouan people living in the Yazoo river valley in Mississippi.
5. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
6. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
9. South African term for `boss'.
10. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
16. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. Being one more than ninety.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. The eleventh month of the civil year.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
28. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
40. God of love and erotic desire.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
49. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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