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1. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
4. Expletives used informally as intensifiers.
10. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
13. The cry made by sheep.
14. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
15. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
16. The probability of a specified outcome.
18. Examine by palpation for medical purposes.
20. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
22. A genus of echinoderms of the family Antedonidae.
23. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
26. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
30. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
36. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
39. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
44. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
47. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
53. East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed.
56. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
58. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
59. The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).
62. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
63. A young woman making her debut into society.
64. Someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act.
65. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Little known Kamarupan languages.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
4. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
5. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
6. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
7. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
8. Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions.
9. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
11. Of or being the lowest female voice.
12. Dignified manner or conduct.
17. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
19. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
21. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. A state in midwestern United States.
25. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
28. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
29. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
31. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
32. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
33. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
35. A thrusting blow with a knife.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
40. A human female who does housework.
43. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
45. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
46. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
48. Administer an oil or ointment to.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
52. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
54. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
55. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
57. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
60. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
61. Being one more than one hundred.
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