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Initial
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Clue
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Answer
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A
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Car and street are the components which form a Spanish motorway
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Autostrada
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B
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Surname of famous quarterback Tom
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Brady
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C
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State the opposite of; argue against
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Contradict
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D
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From Spanish, a desperate person
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Desperado
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E
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Send abroad to be tried in a court in the country where a criminal charge was made
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Extradite
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F
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Unit of capacitance, named after English physicist Michael
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Farad
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G
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Slow, bit-by-bit - not sudden
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Gradual
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H
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Herb of the mustard family used as a whitish sauce
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Horseradish
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I
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Impossible to make extinct or wipe out entirely; permanent
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Ineradicable
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J
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Located in eastern Morocco, a town near the Algerian border
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Jerada
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K
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Unit of absorbed radiation equal to 100,000 ergs of energy per gram of material
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Kilorad
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L
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Canadian peninsula, and a breed of dog
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Labrador
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M
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Pretend surreptitiously to be someone else
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Masquerade
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N
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Unable to be broken down, rot, or decay
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Nondegradable
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O
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Change the value of, but go too far in the other direction
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Overadjust
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P
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A seemingly contradictory statement which is nonetheless true
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Paradox
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Q
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A ravine, from the Spanish verb meaning "broken"
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Quebrada
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R
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The angle at the centre of a circle created by an arc which is the same length as the radius; there are 2π of these in a full 360° circle
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Radian
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S
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Have one leg either side of, as in a person on a horse
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Straddle
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T
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Late-sounding invertebrate which can survive the vacuum of space, freezing, boiling, extreme pressure and lethal doses of radiation
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Tardigrade
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U
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University student, ie one who has not yet passed their final exams
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Undergraduate
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V
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City originally named Tsaritsyn, and infamous for its 1942-43 battle
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Volgograd
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W
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Confused bear downs tent, at a town near Sarasota, Florida; being the suburb which is nearer the Gulf coast
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West Bradenton
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X
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A type of X-ray imaging in which a picture of the body is recorded on paper rather than on film
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Xeroradiography
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Y
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Dry yachtsman, clearly lost, found inland in Welsh town
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Ystrad Mynach
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Z
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Large Moscow suburb whose name seems to pay tribute to a famous Ukrainian
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Zelenograd
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