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1. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
4. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
8. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
12. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
18. Wearing or provided with clothing.
19. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
20. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
22. Often cultivated for the decorative foliage.
24. Slightly open.
25. The elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object.
26. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
27. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
29. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
31. One million periods per second.
34. Enthusiastic approval.
38. A foot traveler.
41. Informal terms for a mother.
42. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. A beautiful and graceful girl.
47. (anatomy) Opposite to or away from the mouth.
48. Many times at short intervals.
51. The act of using.
54. A characteristic sound.
55. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food.
58. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
59. The basic unit of money in Peru.
60. Made ready or fit or suitable beforehand.
62. The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
63. Support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete.
64. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
67. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
72. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
73. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
74. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
78. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
82. 1 species.
84. American dramatist (1928- ).
87. The cry made by sheep.
88. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
90. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
92. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
93. A container.
94. A small cake leavened with yeast.
96. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
98. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
99. A state in the western United States.
100. Type genus of the Anatidae.
101. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
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1. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
2. Basically shredded cabbage.
3. (Judaism) A chant of praise (Psalms 113 through 118) used at Passover and Shabuoth and Sukkoth and Hanukkah and Rosh Hodesh.
4. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
5. An informal term for a father.
6. (of especially liquids) Clouded as with sediment.
7. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
8. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
9. On or toward the lee.
10. A decree that prohibits something.
11. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
12. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.
13. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.
14. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
15. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
21. A Greek island west of Greece.
23. A country on the Comoro Islands.
28. The residue that remains when something is burned.
30. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
32. Variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz.
33. Oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines.
35. Of or relating to a caesura.
36. Part of the province of Newfoundland in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava peninsula in northeastern Canada.
37. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
39. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
40. Reindeer or caribou.
43. United States baseball player.
46. Render verbally, "recite a poem".
49. A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim.
50. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
56. Light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars.
57. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
61. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
65. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
66. State in northeastern India.
68. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
69. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
70. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
71. A Mid-Atlantic state.
75. Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered.
76. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
77. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
79. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
80. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
81. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
83. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
85. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
86. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
89. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
91. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
95. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
97. A public promotion of some product or service.
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