Crossword Puzzle Number 7055 (Medium Grid)

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1. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
4. Under a moral obligation to do something.
11. At a previous time.
15. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
16. A small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship.
17. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.
20. Slightly open.
21. Lower oneself with a double rope coiled aroound the body from a mountainside.
23. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
24. Having branches.
26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. The mother of Jesus.
33. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
36. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
40. Noisy talk.
41. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
43. A genus of Indriidae.
45. Temporary military shelter.
47. English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford Movement (1792-1866).
48. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
50. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
52. The habitation of wild animals.
53. Australian wild horse.
56. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
58. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
59. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
61. A musician who plays the oboe.
68. Founder of Buddhism.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
71. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
72. Of or relating to the class Insecta.
74. According to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions).
75. The longest division of geological time.
76. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
77. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

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1. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
2. (anatomy) A fold or wrinkle or crease.
3. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
4. A city on the Loire river in north central France.
5. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
6. Your general store of remembered information.
7. The part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum.
8. Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold.
9. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
10. A special loved one.
11. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
12. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
13. A thin strip (wood or metal).
14. Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
22. (British and Australian) A cheap wine of inferior quality.
25. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
27. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. 1 species.
30. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
31. A licensed medical practitioner.
32. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
34. Any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads.
35. A gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws.
37. Small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted.
38. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. (trademark) Nylon fabric used as a fastening.
46. (British) The position of headmaster or headmistress.
49. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.
51. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
54. A Spanish female Gypsy.
55. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
57. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
60. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
62. A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
63. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
64. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
65. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
66. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
67. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
69. (British) Informal term for information.
73. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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