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1. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
4. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
10. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
13. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
14. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. A genus of Ploceidae.
18. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
20. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
21. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
23. Clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion.
24. One thousand periods per second.
25. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
27. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
35. The month following February and preceding April.
37. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
39. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
44. Having winglike extensions.
46. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
47. A city of southeastern Mexico.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. A Russian river.
51. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
52. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
57. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
61. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
63. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
64. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
65. A port city in southwestern Iran.
67. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
68. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
69. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
70. The capital and largest city of Japan.
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1. Tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling.
2. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
3. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
6. Ctenophore having tentacles only in the immature stage.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
9. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
11. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) (1898-1978).
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
17. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. An informal term for a father.
26. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
28. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
29. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
30. Canadian literary critic interested in the use of myth and symbolism (1912-1991).
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
34. English monk and scholar (672-735).
36. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Not easily borne.
42. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
43. A highwayman who robs on foot.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
50. English monk and scholar (672-735).
53. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
55. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
56. (informal) Exceptionally good.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. Having been read.
60. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
62. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
66. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
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