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1. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
5. A resident of Utah.
11. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
15. A progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms.
16. Tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit.
17. A Loloish language.
18. English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981).
20. (British) Any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low).
21. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. Remote in manner.
24. A telegram sent abroad.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
27. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
30. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
31. A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam.
33. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
35. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
41. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities.
42. An almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum.
46. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
48. Very dark black.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
52. God of wealth and love.
55. A person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour.
58. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
62. The usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant.
64. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
67. The content of cognition.
69. A South American river.
71. English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement (1792-1866).
73. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
74. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
75. Indian sitar player who popularized classical Indian music in the West (born in 1920).
77. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
78. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
79. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
2. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
3. A lever that is operated with the foot.
4. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
5. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
6. Excluded from use or mention.
7. Great coolness and composure under strain.
8. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
9. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
10. A period of time spent sleeping.
11. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
12. Jordan's port.
13. Be going to.
14. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
19. A deep bow.
26. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
28. A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).
29. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
32. Remove the veil from.
34. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
36. 1/10 gram.
37. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
38. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
39. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
40. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
43. A cruel and brutal fellow.
44. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
45. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
47. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
51. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
53. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. A primeval personification of air and breath.
57. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain.
59. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
63. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
65. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
66. English Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718).
68. Fallow deer.
70. Inquire about.
72. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
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