Crossword Puzzle Number 4938 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
4. Any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC.
12. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds.
17. Water frozen in the solid state.
18. Immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit of.
19. The amount added to the cost to determine the asking price.
20. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
22. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
24. A grant made by a law court.
26. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
27. European shad.
30. A resin used in adhesives and paints.
32. Being one more than one hundred.
34. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
35. Take in solid food.
38. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
40. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
43. Cultivated in temperate regions.
45. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
46. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
47. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
48. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
53. Gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas.
57. Of or relating to or involving an area.
58. Agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central and South America and West Indies.
60. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
63. A family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa.
67. An artificial language.
71. Move out of a dock.
74. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
75. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
76. Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts.
78. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
79. An affirmative.
80. Small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers.
81. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.

DOWN

1. A magic power or magic spell.
2. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).
3. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
4. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
7. The basic unit of money in Equatorial Guinea.
8. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
9. At an earlier place.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
12. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
13. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
14. Made of fir or pine.
21. A battle in World War II.
23. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
25. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
28. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.
29. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
31. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
33. Make worse or less effective.
36. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
37. Of a yellowish brown color similar to olive drab n.
39. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
41. Seed of a pea plant.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A city in northern India.
50. Being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium.
51. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
52. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
54. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
55. A complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent.
56. (usually followed by `for') Extremely desirous.
59. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
61. Someone who bakes commercially.
62. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
64. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
65. Located inward.
66. Social status or position conferred by a system based on class.
68. Belonging to some prior time.
69. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
70. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans.
72. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
73. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
77. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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