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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. Tag the base runner to get him out.
16. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
17. Jordan's port.
19. A bachelor's degree in science.
21. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
22. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
29. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
31. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
36. A genus of Platalea.
39. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
40. Produced by a manufacturing process.
43. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
44. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
46. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. The residue that remains when something is burned.
50. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
51. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
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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. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
7. An informal term for a father.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. A member of a Dravidian people living in Pakistan.
20. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
27. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
28. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
33. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
34. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
35. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
37. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
38. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
41. An associate degree in applied science.
42. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
47. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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