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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. God of love and erotic desire.
8. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
11. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. Stalk of a moss capsule.
16. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. Antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. A resource.
24. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
29. Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops.
30. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
34. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
36. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
38. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. God of death.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
53. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
54. Divulge information or secrets.
55. An associate degree in nursing.
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1. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
2. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
5. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
6. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
7. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
8. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
9. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
20. Related by blood.
22. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
25. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
26. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
37. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
40. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. A flexible container with a single opening.
46. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
51. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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