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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
12. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. (British) Informal term for information.
17. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
18. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
19. An associate degree in nursing.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
26. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. A quantity of no importance.
33. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
50. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
52. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
54. An informal term for a father.
55. A graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions.
56. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
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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 gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
5. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
6. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
7. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. The cry made by sheep.
20. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
22. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
24. An informal term for a father.
27. An informal term for a father.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. The residue that remains when something is burned.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
37. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
38. A city in Veneto.
39. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
47. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
48. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
53. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
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