Crossword Puzzle Number 4445 (Medium Grid)

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1. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
4. One species.
12. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
15. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
16. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
17. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
18. The capital and largest city of Equatorial Guinea on the island of Bioko in the Gulf of Guinea.
20. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
21. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
22. Having removed clothing.
23. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
25. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
26. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
27. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
28. Put down by force or intimidation.
32. Any of various units of capacity.
34. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
39. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
43. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
45. The ability to form mental images of things or events.
47. Inquire about.
48. Involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct.
51. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
52. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
54. A boy or man.
56. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
59. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
62. An insane person.
66. (Hinduism) Term of respect for a Brahmin sage.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. Capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal.
74. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
75. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
76. Elaborately or excessively ornamented.
78. Affected manners intended to impress others.
79. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
80. Work with in a non-serious manner.
81. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. Type genus of the family Mimidae.
2. A slap with the flat of the hand.
3. A genus of Old World grasses widely cultivated in America.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. Ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head.
6. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
7. A compact mass.
8. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
9. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
10. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
11. A port in southwestern Scotland.
12. Lean end of the neck.
13. A means of serving.
14. A Nilotic language.
19. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
24. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
29. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
30. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
31. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. A city in western Germany.
38. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
40. Make anew.
41. Using speech rather than writing.
42. A stock exchange in New York.
44. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
46. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
49. A formal expression of praise.
50. Divulge information or secrets.
53. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
55. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
57. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
58. An informal term for a father.
60. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
61. An oil port in southern Iraq.
63. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
64. Sour or bitter in taste.
67. In bed.
68. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
69. The officer below the master on a commercial ship.
72. The money risked on a gamble.
73. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
77. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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