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1. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
4. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
8. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
21. A tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression.
23. Skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends.
25. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
27. A star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process.
29. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
30. A pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3).
34. A deep bow.
36. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
38. A battle in 1645 that settled the outcome of the first English Civil War as the Parliamentarians won a major victory over the Royalists.
41. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
42. Strong and sharp.
46. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
47. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Helios and mother of Ariadne.
51. Hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton.
52. A French abbot.
54. Either extremity of something that has length.
55. (informal) Of the highest quality.
56. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
57. Resembling a berry.
60. A humorous anecdote or remark.
61. Cause to be attached.
62. A city in northern Iraq on the River Tigris across from the ruins of Nineveh.
63. A naturally occuring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils.
66. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
67. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
69. Articles of the same kind or material.
70. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
72. Music in triple time for dancing the landler.
74. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
77. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
80. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
81. (Babylonian) God of fire.
82. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
83. Cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful.
87. The content of cognition.
91. For fear that.
92. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
93. Belonging to some prior time.
95. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
96. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
97. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
98. A quantity of no importance.
99. (British) Your grandmother.
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1. A light clear metallic sound as of a small bell.
2. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
3. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
4. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
5. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
6. (Irish) Goddess.
7. A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
10. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. Provide with a terrace, as of a house.
13. Call forth.
14. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
15. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
22. A genus of Indriidae.
24. Type genus of the Danaidae.
26. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
32. One thousand grams.
33. (of a bed) Not having the sheets and blankets set in order.
35. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A small book usually having a paper cover.
40. A singer who changes register rapidly (popular is Swiss folk songs).
43. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
44. A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.
45. Of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water.
48. Grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers.
49. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
50. Involving or constituting a cause.
53. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
58. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
59. English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825).
64. To say or state again.
65. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
68. An informal term for a father.
71. An enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside.
73. 1 species.
75. A traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel).
76. Suitable for formal occasions.
78. Jordan's port.
79. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
84. Divisible by two.
85. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
86. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
88. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
89. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
90. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
94. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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