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1. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
4. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
7. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
11. The residue that remains when something is burned.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
14. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
31. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A Mid-Atlantic state.
35. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
38. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
44. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
50. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
51. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
52. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
54. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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1. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
2. One thousandth of a second.
3. 3 to 30 gigahertz.
4. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
5. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
6. An informal term for a father.
7. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
8. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
9. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
20. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
21. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
22. Advanced in years.
23. A native-born Israeli.
25. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
27. The cry made by sheep.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. The act of scanning.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
39. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
40. God of love and erotic desire.
41. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. An enclosed space.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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