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1. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
4. Of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language.
12. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
15. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
16. The Bodhisattva who is to appear as a Buddha 5000 years after the death of Gautama.
17. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
18. Larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing.
20. A white secretion of the sebaceous glands of the foreskin.
22. A Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. Red breed of domestic rabbits.
27. Full of flavor.
30. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
31. A tributary of the Rhine.
35. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
38. Delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores.
39. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
40. Taking place over public roads.
42. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
43. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
44. A human limb.
48. A member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia.
51. A white powder used as a pigment for its high covering power and durability.
52. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
55. Belonging to the modern era.
56. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
59. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
61. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
65. The spirit of evil in Zoroastrianism.
70. Miscellaneous curios.
72. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
74. A liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
75. Be earlier in time.
77. Having leadership guidance.
78. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
79. A great raja.
80. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
2. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.
3. A loud raucous cry as of an awl.
4. (used especially of meats and fish) Dried and cured in wood smoke.
5. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
6. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
7. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
8. Island in West Indies.
9. That is to say.
10. A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.
11. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
12. The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.
13. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
14. Divulge information or secrets.
19. Somewhat flattened cylindrical squid.
21. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).
23. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
24. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
28. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
29. An informal term for a father.
32. Of or relating to similar to bears.
33. One of the Aesir having a strong and beautiful body but a dull mind.
34. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
36. A distinguishing feature of one's personal nature.
37. (anatomy) Any structure that resembles a horn in shape.
41. A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices.
45. A New England state.
46. Discharge from the external ear.
47. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
49. (slang) Merchandise that is shoddy or inferior.
50. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
57. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel.
58. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
60. Indigo bush.
63. Type genus of the Ranidae.
64. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
66. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
67. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
68. In bed.
69. A quantity of no importance.
71. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
76. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
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