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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. A former French coin of low denomination.
13. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
16. The sign language used in the United States.
17. Jordan's port.
20. Personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians.
22. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
31. Characteristic of false pride.
32. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A flexible container with a single opening.
45. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
48. A light touch or stroke.
49. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
50. A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).
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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. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
5. A state of southwestern India.
6. Norwegian painter (1863-1944).
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
9. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
21. The bill in a restaurant.
23. One thousand periods per second.
24. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. Being one more than one hundred.
28. An associate degree in nursing.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
37. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A fractional monetary unit of several countries.
41. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
42. The cry made by sheep.
43. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
44. Towards the side away from the wind.
45. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
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