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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. A small island.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. Type genus of the Ranidae.
16. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
17. Jordan's port.
20. Of or belonging to an aecium.
23. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
26. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
27. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. An intuitive awareness.
29. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
44. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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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. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean.
5. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
6. A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
7. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
21. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
22. (informal) Of the highest quality.
24. One thousand periods per second.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
30. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
31. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
32. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
35. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. An informal term for a father.
39. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
40. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
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