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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
8. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
12. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
16. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
17. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
18. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
19. Characteristic of false pride.
20. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
22. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
24. Toward the mouth or oral region.
25. Of or relating to alga.
27. Well in the past.
29. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
32. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
34. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
36. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
39. Late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers.
41. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
45. A nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens.
46. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.
48. Showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness.
49. Technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients.
52. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
53. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
54. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
56. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
59. Characterized by unity.
61. Being one more than ten.
63. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
67. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
68. Divulge information or secrets.
70. An unofficial association of people or groups.
71. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
72. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
74. An associate degree in nursing.
75. A flexible container with a single opening.
77. Of or relating to the language of the Hebrews.
83. A doctor's degree in music.
86. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
87. Not necessarily inaudible but not heard.
89. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
90. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
91. A board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases.
93. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
95. (informal) Roused to anger.
96. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
97. Sour or bitter in taste.
98. The basic unit of money in China.
99. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
2. Common black European thrush.
3. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
4. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
6. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
7. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
8. An honorary degree in science.
9. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
10. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
11. Heard through another rather than directly.
12. Italian physicist noted for his work on gases.
13. A nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank.
14. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
15. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
21. An area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India.
23. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
26. Of or containing divalent copper.
28. The fatty flesh of eel.
30. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
31. Deer grass.
33. Freetail bats.
35. Anything that serves as an enticement.
37. An artificial language.
38. The part of the stamen that contains pollen.
40. Something that hinders as if with bonds v 1.
42. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
43. Educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894).
44. Flattery intended to persuade.
47. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
50. A city of southeastern Mexico.
51. A master's degree in religion.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
57. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
58. French artist who immigrated to the United States.
60. A city in central Tanzania.
62. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
64. A structure in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (as in a bascule bridge).
65. Lower in esteem.
66. Steal goods.
67. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
69. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
73. Russian country house.
76. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
77. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
78. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
79. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
80. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
81. Beside one another in a row or rank.
82. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
84. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
85. An informal term for a father.
88. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
92. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
94. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
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