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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 (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
11. The sound made by a gentle blow.
12. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
13. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
14. The second largest city in Tunisia.
16. Tag the base runner to get him out.
17. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
18. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end.
29. A fraudulent business scheme.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
35. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
41. Informal terms for a mother.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
45. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
46. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
48. The cry made by sheep.
50. An awkward stupid person.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
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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 Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
7. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
8. Everything you own.
9. Not only so, but.
10. A town in north central Oklahoma.
15. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
20. Feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight.
21. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
22. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
28. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. A master's degree in business.
31. A bachelor's degree in religion.
34. Jordan's port.
36. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
40. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons.
43. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
44. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
47. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
50. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
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