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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
10. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
13. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
14. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
15. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
16. Building material used as siding or roofing.
18. An enclosed armored military vehicle.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. Fallow deer.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. The act of scanning.
26. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
29. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
32. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
35. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A bit with a bar mouthpiece that is designed to combine a curb and snaffle.
40. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
41. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
42. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
43. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. A festival featuring African-American culture.
57. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
58. A Loloish language.
59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
63. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
64. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
65. Not divisible by two.
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1. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
4. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
7. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
8. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
9. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
10. A human limb.
11. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
17. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
21. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
22. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy.
30. On or toward the lee.
31. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
33. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
34. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
45. Of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people.
46. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
49. Distant in either space or time.
50. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
51. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
52. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
53. In bed.
54. Advanced in years.
56. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
60. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
61. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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