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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
16. Minor or subordinate.
17. Jordan's port.
19. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
24. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
27. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
36. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
42. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. (Irish) The sea personified.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. A doctor's degree in education.
51. Taking place over public roads.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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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. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
6. Foam or froth on the sea.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. A telegram sent abroad.
23. A doctor's degree in optometry.
25. One million periods per second.
26. The cry made by sheep.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. In bed.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
39. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. (computer science) A data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
45. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
48. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
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