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1. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
4. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
8. A friendly nation.
12. United States feminist (1885-1977).
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
18. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
19. In addition.
20. (informal) Roused to anger.
21. Indicating the most important performer or role.
22. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
23. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
24. Of or involving the ovaries.
27. Small genus of deciduous West Indian trees or shrubs.
29. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
32. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
33. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. Someone who lives in a cottage.
37. The time when something happens.
41. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
42. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
46. A Formosan language.
47. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
49. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
51. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. Type genus of the Ranidae.
55. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
57. A proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys.
58. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
61. Advanced in years.
63. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
64. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
65. (informal) Exceptionally good.
68. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
70. A boy or man.
71. Grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished.
73. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
75. Be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind.
79. The first Hindu calendar month (corresponding to March or April in the Gregorian calendar).
82. Any plant of the genus Erica.
84. Any taillike structure.
88. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
90. Unable to relax or be still.
91. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
92. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
93. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
95. A town in north central Oklahoma.
97. English essayist (1775-1834).
98. A doctor's degree in education.
99. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
100. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
101. A source of danger.
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1. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
2. Speaking a Slavic language.
3. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
4. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
5. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
6. The act of scanning.
7. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
8. American novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888).
9. Being two more than fifty.
10. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
11. A member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
14. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
15. Steadfast in allegiance or duty.
25. The length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere.
26. A Powhatan Indian woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
28. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
30. Meat from a domestic hog or pig.
31. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
34. British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the Empress of India (1804-1881).
36. A person who groans.
38. Having a single vocal part.
39. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
40. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
43. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
44. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.
45. A city in southeastern Spain.
48. Free and relaxed in manner.
50. A strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp.
52. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
59. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
60. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
62. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
66. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
67. Very attentive or observant.
69. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
72. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
74. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
76. A city in central New York.
77. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
78. The 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
80. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
81. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
83. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
85. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
86. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
87. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
89. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
94. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
96. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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