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1. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
4. Common Indian weaverbird.
8. An audiotape recording of sound.
11. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
12. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Noisy talk.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
20. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
22. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
23. Toward the mouth or oral region.
25. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
36. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
42. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
45. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
46. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
47. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
48. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
49. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
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1. Ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of United States Pacific coast having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits.
2. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
3. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
4. The cry made by sheep.
5. The month following March and preceding May.
6. Not only so, but.
7. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. A city in northern India.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. United States singer and film actor (1904-1977).
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
24. A light touch or stroke.
27. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
33. The act of swimming.
34. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
35. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
37. A European river.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. God of love and erotic desire.
43. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
44. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
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