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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. God of love and erotic desire.
8. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. Armor plate that protects the chest.
13. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
16. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
17. Jordan's port.
19. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Tag the base runner to get him out.
24. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
27. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
49. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. A light touch or stroke.
52. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
53. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
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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. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
7. Relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation.
8. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
10. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
25. One million periods per second.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. Failing to detonate.
45. Informal terms for a difficult situation.
46. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
47. Before noon.
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