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1. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
4. Predatory insect of western North America having a long necklike prothorax.
12. The bill in a restaurant.
15. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
16. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.
17. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
18. A group of street musicians in Mexico.
20. Half the width of an em.
22. An unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang.
25. (botany) Of some seeds.
27. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
28. A type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century.
29. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
33. A genus of Bothidae.
37. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
39. Being nine more than forty.
40. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
43. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
46. News that updates your information v 1.
49. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
50. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
51. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
52. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
54. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
57. Employed in accomplishing something.
59. Type genus of the Anatidae.
60. Of the color of cream.
62. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
63. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
68. Toward the mouth or oral region.
72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
76. A bachelor's degree in theology.
77. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
79. Extremely pleasing.
80. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.
81. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
82. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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1. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
2. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
3. The main good female character in a work of fiction.
4. The unlimited 3-dimensional expanse in which everything is located.
5. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
6. Causing a dull and steady pain.
7. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
8. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
9. A member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat.
10. Type genus of the Laniidae.
11. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
12. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
13. Channel into a new direction.
14. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
19. An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands).
21. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
23. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
24. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
26. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
30. An antibiotic (trade name Nebcin) that is especially effective against gram-negative bacteria.
31. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
32. Midwife toads.
34. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended.
35. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Water frozen in the solid state.
41. A partially opened flower.
42. Workplace for the teaching or practice of an art.
44. A strong emotion.
45. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
47. Deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers.
48. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
56. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
58. A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.
61. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
64. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
65. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
67. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
69. A Berber living in northern Morocco.
70. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
71. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
73. Of southern Europe.
74. An accountant certified by the state.
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. Being nine more than ninety.
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