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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. God of love and erotic desire.
8. An honorary degree in science.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. Armor plate that protects the chest.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. A vigorous blow.
16. Extremely pleasing.
17. Jordan's port.
20. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
22. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
37. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
41. (British) Your grandmother.
42. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
43. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
44. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
45. A light touch or stroke.
46. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
47. A source of oil.
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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. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
7. The residue that remains when something is burned.
8. An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
9. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. 1 species.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. One million periods per second.
24. The cry made by sheep.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
30. (with `in') Guardianship over.
31. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
32. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. 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.
36. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
38. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
39. Call upon in supplication.
40. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
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