Crossword Puzzle Number 940 (Medium Grid)

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ACROSS

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. Of or relating to the gonads.
11. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. Basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle.
17. An elaborate song for solo voice.
18. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
20. Engagingly stimulating or provocative.
21. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
22. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
25. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
27. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
32. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
33. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
37. A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chine.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
45. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
46. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
48. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
50. (informal) Of the highest quality.
51. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
53. The amount of money needed to purchase something.
55. Scottish theologian who founded Scottish Presbyterianism and wrote a history of the reformation in Scotland (1514-1572).
56. A quantity of no importance.
59. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
60. Minute floating marine tunicate having a transparent body with an opening at each end.
63. God of fire.
66. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
69. An internal representation of the world.
72. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
74. Garlic mayonnaise.
76. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
77. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
78. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
80. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
81. A rapid bustling commotion.
82. Of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green.
83. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. (nautical) Situated at or toward the bow of a vessel.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
4. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
5. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
6. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
7. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
8. A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas.
9. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
10. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
11. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
12. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
13. The basic unit of money on Malta.
14. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
19. Sacred writings of Orthodox Judaism.
23. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
24. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
26. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
28. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
30. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
34. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things.
35. A drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure.
36. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
38. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight.
39. German arms manufacturer and son of Friedrich Krupp.
40. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
41. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
44. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
47. A Mid-Atlantic state.
49. Transfer somebody to a different position or location of work.
52. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
54. (trademark) An antacid.
57. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
58. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
61. The sacred city of Lamaism.
62. Type genus of the Percidae.
64. Prepare for a military confrontation.
65. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
67. A narrow way or road.
68. A large number or amount.
70. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
71. A French abbot.
73. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
75. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
79. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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