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1. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
4. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
12. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
17. Informal terms for a mother.
18. A large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling.
19. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
20. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. Member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
32. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
34. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
40. A frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry.
42. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
45. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
48. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
49. A yearning for something or to do something.
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
3. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
4. The capital of Morocco.
5. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
6. A boy or man.
7. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
10. A fraudulent business scheme.
15. Jordan's port.
16. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
21. The woody part of plants.
22. A state in midwestern United States.
24. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
28. Being nine more than ninety.
29. The square of a body of any size of type.
33. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
35. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax).
36. The template for protein synthesis.
37. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
41. Noisy talk.
46. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
47. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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