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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Showing or causing joy and pleasure.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
12. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
16. A public promotion of some product or service.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Lower in esteem.
23. A human female who does housework.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
31. A state in midwestern United States.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
40. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
41. An accidental happening.
44. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
45. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
46. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
48. How long something has existed.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
5. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
9. By bad luck.
10. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
18. Filled with fear or apprehension.
20. The cry made by sheep.
21. A port city in southwestern Iran.
22. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
24. An expression of greeting.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
33. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
34. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
36. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
37. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
38. Toward the mouth or oral region.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
42. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
43. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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