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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. Extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit.
11. A metal frame or container holding cartridges.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish.
17. A pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished.
18. Jam-spread sponge cake soaked in wine served with custard sauce.
20. Any hardy bog orchid of the genus Pogonia.
22. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
23. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
25. Nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste.
26. Come out into view, as from concealment.
28. A salt or ester of hydriodic acid.
29. Offensively discourteous.
33. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
38. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.
41. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. A slight push or shake.
43. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
52. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
54. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
64. Relating to or affecting the viscera.
67. A coterie of undesirable people.
68. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
69. Metal shackles.
72. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.
73. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
74. Light teasing repartee.
76. Dignified manner or conduct.
77. A narrow way or road.
78. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. Soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants.
2. God of death.
3. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
4. Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried.
5. Imperfect development.
6. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
7. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
8. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
9. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
10. Any of a class of unstable chemical compounds resulting from the addition of ozone to a double bond in an unsaturated compound.
11. Lacking definite form or limits.
12. A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
13. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
14. A sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic.
19. A canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse).
21. A farewell remark.
24. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
27. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
30. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
31. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
32. Half the width of an em.
34. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
35. American novelist (1909-1955).
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
39. Characterized by dignity and propriety.
40. God of the earth.
45. An associate degree in applied science.
46. The front limb (or homologous structure in other animals such as a flipper or wing).
49. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
51. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
53. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
56. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
57. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.
58. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
61. Transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public.
62. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
63. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
65. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
66. Primarily temporal sense.
70. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
71. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
75. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
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