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1. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
4. Clover ferns.
12. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. Relating to or demonstrating acapnia.
17. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
18. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
20. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
21. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
23. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
24. Unknown god.
26. A primeval personification of air and breath.
27. A state in northwestern North America.
28. Remove gas from.
30. Give over.
31. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
34. A river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River.
36. (Judaism) A Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman.
37. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
40. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
42. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
43. An industrial city in the Donets Basin.
50. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
51. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
52. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
53. Marked by extreme anger.
55. Support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete.
57. Any plant of the genus Erica.
59. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
60. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
61. (law) The privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land).
63. A member of the beat generation.
67. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
70. Nicaraguan statesman (born in 1945).
74. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
75. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites).
76. Choose and follow.
78. A resource.
79. The month following August and preceding October.
80. Of legislation.
81. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
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1. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
7. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
8. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
9. An associative relation.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
13. Having the head uncovered.
14. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
19. Reprehensible acquisitiveness.
22. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
25. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
29. A humorous anecdote or remark.
32. A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting.
33. Supply with battlements.
35. Having help.
38. French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834).
39. A genus of Ploceidae.
41. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
44. Hard to endure.
45. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
46. The act of emitting.
47. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
48. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
49. Power to control.
54. A pad of paper for keeping notes.
56. Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized.
58. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
64. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
65. On, to, or at the top.
66. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
68. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
69. A quantity of no importance.
71. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
72. Failing to detonate.
73. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
77. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
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