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1. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
10. An antiviral drug used in the treatment of AIDS.
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
15. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
16. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
17. A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
19. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
21. A grant made by a law court.
23. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
26. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
27. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
31. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
34. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
35. Using speech rather than writing.
39. A light touch or stroke.
41. Lower in esteem.
43. A French abbot.
45. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
48. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
52. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
54. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
55. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
58. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
59. Not widely known.
60. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
61. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
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1. Informal terms for a mother.
2. A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended.
3. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
4. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
5. One of the proteins into which actomyosin can be split.
6. (Irish) The sea personified.
7. Again but in a new or different way.
8. The cry made by sheep.
9. A large fleet.
10. Type genus of the Amiidae.
11. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
12. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping.
20. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
22. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
24. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
25. 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.
28. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
29. Type genus of the Apidae.
30. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
32. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
33. Tag the base runner to get him out.
36. Declared but not proved.
37. A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
42. Limbless scaly elongate reptile.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
47. (Roman mythology) God of love.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
51. The template for protein synthesis.
53. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
56. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
57. A state in north central United States.
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