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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. A small island.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
12. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
13. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. (Babylonian) The sky god.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
19. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
21. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
25. A master's degree in fine arts.
27. Any of various units of capacity.
31. A genus of Pyralidae.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
37. Largest crested screamer.
40. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
43. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. A large fleet.
47. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
48. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. A city in the European part of Russia.
53. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
54. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
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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. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. A state in midwestern United States.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
7. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning).
8. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
9. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
10. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
15. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
23. A genus of Ploceidae.
24. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
26. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A Hindu prince or king in India.
33. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
34. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.
38. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
39. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
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