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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. Large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles.
10. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
13. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
14. A South American river.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
25. A soft silvery metallic element.
27. A rapid bustling commotion.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
37. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
39. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
44. A hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
48. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
63. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
64. An enclosed space.
65. Made or become cool or made cool as specified.
67. The cry made by sheep.
68. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
69. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
70. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. (informal) A bunch.
4. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
5. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
6. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. An associate degree in nursing.
9. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
10. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
11. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
12. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
17. Common Indian weaverbird.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
21. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. Being nine more than ninety.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
31. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
33. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
34. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
35. English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606).
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. An informal term for a father.
42. Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves.
43. A green transparent form of beryl.
44. An associate degree in nursing.
47. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
50. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.
54. The heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails.
56. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
57. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
58. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
60. Fiddler crabs.
61. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
62. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
66. A doctor's degree in religion.
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