Crossword Puzzle Number 5530 (Medium Grid)

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1. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
4. Bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. 15th President of the United States (1791-1868).
17. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
18. Go beyond.
20. The address where a person lives.
21. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
22. An intuitive awareness.
23. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
26. Kenyan statesman and the first president of independent Kenya (1893-1978).
30. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
32. Informal terms for a mother.
33. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
35. Something lost (especially money lost at gambling).
39. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
43. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
44. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
46. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
47. A very light brown.
49. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
51. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
55. An argument opposed to a proposal.
56. A form of Japanese poetry.
60. Not invited or requested.
64. Covered with scabs.
71. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
72. Any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum.
75. A person of French descent.
76. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
77. Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.
78. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
79. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
80. A festival featuring African-American culture.
81. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.

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1. A piece of land held under the feudal system.
2. A French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750).
3. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
4. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
5. Short and fat.
6. Being nine more than ninety.
7. A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
8. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
9. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
10. A slight amount or degree of difference.
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
13. Water containing salts.
14. Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.
19. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. A member of the Siouan people of the Arkansas river valley in Arkansas.
27. (British) Your grandmother.
28. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
29. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
31. (anatomy) A structure that resembles a shell in shape.
34. In bed.
36. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
37. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
38. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
40. Any plant of the genus Erica.
41. A device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position.
42. Make improvements or corrections to.
45. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
48. Capital of modern Macedonia.
50. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
52. Bark rich in tannin.
53. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
54. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.
57. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
58. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
61. A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
62. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
63. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
65. 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.
66. An elaborate song for solo voice.
67. Swiss hotelier who created a chain of elegant hotels (1850-1918).
68. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
69. Remove from office.
70. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
73. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
74. A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.

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