ABBREVIATION: "independent [arm] in the executive branch charged with controlling and abating...pollution" Crossword Clue

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ABBREVIATION: "independent [arm] in the executive branch charged with controlling and abating...pollution" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CONTROLLING (adjective)
1. able to control or determine policy
INDEPENDENT (adjective)
1. (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
2. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
INDEPENDENT (noun)
1. a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
2. a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

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1. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "73–4 b.c. the Great Roman king of Judea (37–4)"

6. Sportscaster Adams

9. ADVERB: "swiftly"

10. May ___ excused?

11. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "arm of the Atlantic in northern Europe enclosed by Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany"

13. NOUN: "a migratory grasshopper often traveling in vast swarms and stripping the areas passed of all vegetation"

14. NOUN: "the fifth month of the Gregorian calendar"

16. Greek Muse of lyric poetry

18. Take ___ of (drink, as brandy)

20. ___ B'rith (Jewish organization)

21. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Quincy 1933–2024 American composer, bandleader, and producer"

23. Metric units of vol.

24. No need to explain further

26. ADJECTIVE: "physically severe"

29. Narrow waterway (abbr.)

30. Attorney-__

31. ___-op (intel agency tactic)

32. "___ bene" (Italian for "very good")

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Down

1. Any member of the Montreal Canadiens, casually

3. NOUN: "something (such as a catchphrase, incident, or event) that is used to excite people to support a cause or to rouse people to action"

4. COMBINING FORM: "eight"

5. VERB: "to rid or keep free of [frozen water]"

6. ADJECTIVE: "[revealing] details of private matters"

7. The act of helping in a crime

8. ADVERB: "to this extent or degree"

12. NOUN: "an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter"

14. USMC rank

15. Rubs with oil, as in a ceremony

17. Suffix with Franc or Quebec

19. VERB: "to strip off an outer layer of"

22. VERB: "to expose to the action of [water vapor](as for softening or cooking)"

25. "So ___ believe that..." (skeptical statement)

26. Web service provider

27. ABBREVIATION: "having neither flats nor sharps"

28. ADJECTIVE: "being one more than one in number"

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