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Clue
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Answer
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A
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The pleasant smell of food
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Aroma
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B
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Type of chemical, a negative ion with formula BrO₃
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Bromate
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C
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Word similar to a metal element, but meaning relating to colours, or the music scale that has every note
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Chromatic
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D
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Bring back down to Earth; remove the hyperbole or poetic aspect from; make prosaic, mundane
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Deromanticize
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E
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One of the four fundamental forces of nature, involving positive and negative charges
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Electromagnetism
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F
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A first benign tumour consisting of a certain type of material
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Fibroma
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G
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Divination in which someone walking around a circle falls from dizziness and prognosticates from the place of the fall
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Gyromancy
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H
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A supposedly enjoyable experience aimed at soothing the muscles, in which the skin is blasted with jets of water
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Hydromassage
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I
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Of a colour which is so constant
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Isochromatic
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J
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A cult site devoted to the leader of Rani, originally Slavic tribesmen, which formed a settlement on the German island of Rügen
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Jaromarsburg
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K
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Compromising information that is used to blackmail or discredit a person or group usually for political purposes, a term deriving from Russian
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Kompromat
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L
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A self-service laundrette
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Laundromat
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M
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Interfere with in too detailed a way
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Micromanage
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N
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Wizard who uses magic powers to summon the dead
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Necromancer
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O
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Of the mouth and lower jaw
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Oromandibular
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P
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Of a group comprising animals immediately ancestral to the order which includes humans and cats
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Promammalian
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Q
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Village in Peru that a crashed car can be seen at one end of
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Queromarca
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R
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Country where Bucharest is located
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Romania
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S
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Mound of cyanobacteria; these released the Earth's first significant amounts of atmospheric oxygen, paving the way for all complex life
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Stromatolite
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T
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Anti-psychotic tranquilizer with formula C₁₈H₁₉F₃N₂S·HCl, where the F₃ is a key part of the name; phosphorus still needs to be added, and the second half of a periodical publication
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Triflupromazine
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U
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Disinterested in showing affection, passion, etc
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Unromantic
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V
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Village in Provence where there is no capital for a house; the lettuce is in good condition, though
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Vaison-la-Romaine
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W
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The region closely linked to what became the Byzantine Empire, but less far east
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Western Roman Empire
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X
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A process for taking images of breasts using X-rays, related to a word for photocopying
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Xeromammography
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Y
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Russian town where hairy Himalayan bovid is seen, with horns starting to show
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Yakhroma
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Z
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An antibiotic with no Western application, but an extra factor in the end
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Zithromax
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