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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed.
8. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. Distant in either space or time.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. Jordan's port.
20. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
22. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
23. A tumor of the brain consisting of neuroglia.
26. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. Combining form.
29. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
30. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
42. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
44. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. A slight amount or degree of difference.
46. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
47. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
48. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
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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 deep bow.
5. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
6. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
7. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
8. Large Indian antelope.
9. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
10. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
21. Imprudently incurring risk.
24. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
25. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
31. Follower of Rastafarianism.
32. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
33. Beads threaded on a string.
35. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
36. A branch of the Tai languages.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. Pertaining to the forward part of a vessel.
40. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
41. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
43. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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