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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. An analgesic for mild pain.
10. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
13. A doctor's degree in education.
14. (poetic) "the orient sun" n 1.
15. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
16. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
17. Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet.
19. Jordan's port.
21. Being one more than one hundred.
23. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
24. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
25. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.
28. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
30. Transient cessation of respiration.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
37. The habitation of wild animals.
38. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
40. 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.
41. The basic unit of money in Albania.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
47. Remote in manner.
54. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
57. A small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere.
58. By bad luck.
59. A secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
63. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
64. Duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females.
66. (British) Your grandmother.
67. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
68. Greek mythology.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
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. A yellow quartz.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A kitchen utensil that cuts or chops food (especially meat) into small pieces.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
9. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
10. Payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment.
11. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
12. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
18. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
20. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
22. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
26. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
29. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
36. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
39. A loss of will power.
43. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
45. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
46. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
48. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
49. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
50. Unknown god.
51. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
55. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
56. Common Indian weaverbird.
60. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
61. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
65. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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