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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel.
10. God of the earth.
13. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
14. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
18. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
19. The seventh and last day of the week.
20. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
22. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
24. Being one more than fifty.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
30. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
35. A state in midwestern United States.
36. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
38. Little known Kamarupan languages.
39. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
41. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
43. The eleventh month of the civil year.
44. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
46. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
50. God of love and erotic desire.
52. A genus of Hirundinidae.
54. A French abbot.
55. Tag the base runner to get him out.
56. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
59. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
61. A bachelor's degree in religion.
63. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
64. A port city in southwestern Iran.
67. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
68. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
69. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
70. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
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1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
2. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
3. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
4. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
7. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
8. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
9. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
10. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
11. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
21. (slang) A batch of things that go together.
23. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
26. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
33. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
34. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. Thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube).
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
47. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
48. A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
49. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
50. A local computer network for communication between computers.
51. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
53. A genus of Ploceidae.
57. A persistently annoying person.
58. One thousandth of a second.
60. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
62. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
66. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
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