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ACROSS
1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Made clean.
12. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
15. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
16. (architecture) A slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower.
17. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
18. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
19. A detective who follows a trail.
20. Any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as.
22. Speaking a Slavic language.
24. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
25. A light strong gray lustrous corrosionresistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
26. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
27. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
29. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
31. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC).
33. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
36. Someone who cuts or beautifies hair.
41. A city in northern India.
43. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
44. (mathematics) Directly proportional.
46. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
47. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. First in order of birth.
51. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
55. Little known Kamarupan languages.
56. According with custom or propriety.
58. Generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin.
60. Imperial moths.
64. Short and fat.
65. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
67. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
71. Covered with paving material.
73. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
75. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
76. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
77. One of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones.
79. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
80. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
81. A great raja.
82. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
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1. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
2. Little known Kamarupan languages.
3. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
4. The unit of frequency.
5. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
6. Romanian violinist and composer (18811955).
7. (Babylonian) The sky god.
8. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
9. Type genus of the Schizaeaceae cosmopolitan especially in tropics.
10. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. Remove salt from.
12. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
13. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
14. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
21. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
23. Hungarian hunting dog resembling the Weimaraner but having a rich deep red coat.
28. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
30. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
32. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
34. A frequently prescribed sleeping pill (trade name ProSom).
35. (Hinduism or Buddhism) A sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation.
37. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
38. Not only so, but.
39. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
40. Covered with sedges (grasslike marsh plants).
42. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
45. A state in midwestern United States.
50. In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock.
52. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
53. Perennial herb of North America.
54. Tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia.
57. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
59. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
61. Jordan's port.
62. Deserving a curse.
63. English monk and scholar (672-735).
66. Stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut.
68. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
69. Report or maintain.
70. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
72. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
74. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
78. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.