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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. A lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs.
8. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
11. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. The month following February and preceding April.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
19. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
24. A master's degree in business.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. A fraudulent business scheme.
30. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
32. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
45. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
47. The residue that remains when something is burned.
48. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
50. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
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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. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
3. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
4. A person forced to flee from home or country.
5. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
6. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
7. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
10. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
17. Not enough.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A master's degree in fine arts.
31. United States film actor (1899-1957).
33. Tag the base runner to get him out.
34. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
35. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
37. Type genus of the Anatidae.
38. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
39. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
42. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
43. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
44. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
46. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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