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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. The general activity of selling.
8. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. Step on it.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. Jordan's port.
19. A native-born Israeli.
21. Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
24. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
26. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
27. The cry made by sheep.
30. An associate degree in applied science.
32. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
35. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
43. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
46. Wool of the alpaca.
48. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
50. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
53. The fatty flesh of eel.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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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 mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A room equipped with toilet facilities.
7. Remove from memory or existence.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
10. A three-tone Chadic language.
18. Call upon in supplication.
20. Before noon.
22. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
23. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. (logic or grammar) Of or relating to scope.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. On or toward the lee.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. The eleventh month of the civil year.
44. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
51. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
52. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
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