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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
10. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
13. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
14. The state of existing and being localized in space.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
17. Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail.
18. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
19. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.
21. Held up in the air.
23. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
26. Of or at or relating to an anode.
29. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
30. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
31. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. A university town in southeast Wyoming.
41. Water frozen in the solid state.
43. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. A port in southwestern Scotland.
51. River in eastern Asia.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. A highwayman who robs on foot.
55. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
61. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
62. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
63. Pertaining to or near the sun.
64. Late time of life.
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1. A Spanish river.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A small but appreciable amount.
7. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
8. A studio especially for an artist or designer.
9. Someone who is critical of the motives of others.
10. The local environment.
11. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
12. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
20. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
22. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
27. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
28. A European river.
32. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.
33. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. Having two axes.
38. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
42. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
44. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
45. The univalent unsaturated organic radical C3H5.
46. Closed with a lace.
48. A Hindu theistic philosophy.
49. Taking place over public roads.
50. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
54. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
56. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
59. A state in New England.
60. Being ten more than eighty.
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