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1. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
4. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
8. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
11. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
12. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
13. The products of human creativity.
14. Lie adjacent to another.
16. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
17. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
18. Of a pale purple color.
21. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
26. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
34. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
44. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
45. The residue that remains when something is burned.
46. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge.
2. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
3. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
4. One million periods per second.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
9. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
10. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
15. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
19. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
20. The cry made by sheep.
22. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
23. Singing jazz.
27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
33. A vigorous blow.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
38. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
39. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
40. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
43. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
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