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1. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
4. The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down.
12. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
15. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
16. Characterized by the interdependence of living organisms in an environment.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.
19. A woman gossip.
20. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
21. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
26. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
28. Innumerable but many.
35. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
36. A Loloish language.
38. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
39. The part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent.
41. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic.
44. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of their time.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
47. Armor plate that protects the arm.
49. A fraudulent business scheme.
51. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
54. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. 100 sene equal 1 tala.
59. A hotel for motorists.
62. A Mid-Atlantic state.
64. Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood.
71. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
72. A member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia.
75. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
76. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
77. Subject to change or variation especially in behavior.
78. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
79. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
80. A great raja.
81. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. A Scottish word.
3. An endorsement.
4. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. Conforming to truth.
7. In an artful manner.
8. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
9. Refuse to acknowledge.
10. (informal) A stupid incompetent person.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
13. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
14. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
22. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
23. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
24. Quick and skillful in movement.
25. Complacently or inanely foolish.
27. Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity.
29. 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.
30. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
31. Patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble.
32. A basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression).
33. A hostel for pilgrims in Turkey.
34. Stick of wax with a wick in the middle.
37. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
40. A Russian river.
42. Liquid excretory product.
43. Any competition.
48. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
50. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
52. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
60. Satisfy (thirst).
63. A republic in eastern Africa.
70. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
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