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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. A colorless odorless gas used as fuel.
10. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
15. Either extremity of something that has length.
16. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
18. Go or come after and bring or take back.
20. Informal terms for a meal.
21. Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
24. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
25. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
27. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
29. A white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers.
32. Farther along in space or time or degree.
35. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
43. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
44. 16 ounces.
45. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
46. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
48. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
49. Included seven times in every 19 years.
53. Battle in 401 BC when the Persian King Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne.
56. (British) Inferior (espcially of a country's leadership).
59. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
60. The Creator.
63. An informal term for a father.
64. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
65. English monk and scholar (672-735).
66. A branch of the Tai languages.
68. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
69. At any time.
70. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A tube with a small bowl at one end.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. Containing or filled with salt.
4. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
5. 100 tambala equal 1 Kwacha.
6. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
7. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
8. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
9. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
10. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
11. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
17. (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.
19. The univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom.
22. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. (trademark) A piece of soft absorbent paper (usually two or more thin layers) used as a disposable handkerchief.
28. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
30. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
31. Formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
33. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
34. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
37. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
40. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
41. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
42. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
47. Leather with a napped surface.
50. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
51. Lacking in light.
52. Squash bugs.
54. A quantity of no importance.
55. A French abbot.
57. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
58. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
61. Rate of revolution of a motor.
62. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
67. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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