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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
8. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. Type genus of the Anatidae.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
16. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
17. Jordan's port.
20. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
22. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
23. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
39. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
42. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
44. The cry made by sheep.
46. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
47. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
48. Using speech rather than writing.
49. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
50. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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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. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. A large indefinite number.
7. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
8. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
9. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
10. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
19. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
24. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
30. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
33. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
36. In bed.
37. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
38. Informal terms for money.
39. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
43. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
45. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
46. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
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