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1. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
4. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
8. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
11. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. A doctor's degree in education.
15. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
16. The habitation of wild animals.
17. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. An informal conversation.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
30. Distant in either space or time.
31. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
32. Open pastry filled with fruit or custard.
35. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
38. Fiddler crabs.
39. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. An engineering university in Cambridge.
42. Adult female chicken.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. The capital and largest city of Japan.
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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
4. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
5. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
6. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
7. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
8. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
9. Make uniform.
10. A member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas.
18. With safety.
19. The cry made by sheep.
21. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
24. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
25. Make lighter or brighter.
27. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
28. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
29. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
30. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
33. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
34. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
36. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
37. A light touch or stroke.
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