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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. A tight-fitting headdress.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
16. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. Jordan's port.
19. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
21. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
22. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
23. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
25. A genus of Ploceidae.
28. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
32. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
34. God of wealth and love.
36. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
37. Before noon.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. With good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner.
45. A deep bow.
48. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
50. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
55. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
56. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
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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. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
7. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
8. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
20. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
24. Tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
35. The cry made by sheep.
38. Type genus of the Majidae.
40. South African term for `boss'.
41. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
42. In bed.
43. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
44. Noisy talk.
46. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
47. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
52. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
53. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
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