…a type of independent political action committee which may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, and individuals but is not permitted to contribute to or coordinate directly with parties or candidates…
…(in the US) the National Football League championship game played annually between the champions of the National and the American Football Conferences…
…a resort in SW England, on the Bristol Channel; population 79,500 (est. 2009)…
…the part of a person’s mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and teachers…
…(of clothing or a person’s appearance) ostentatiously fashionable…
…denoting or relating to an extremely high-security prison or part of a prison, intended for particularly dangerous prisoners…
…an exemplary or exceptional mother, especially one who successfully manages a home and brings up children while also having a full-time job…
…a large slow-moving area of updraught and downdraught which causes violent thunderstorms, heavy hail, and tornadoes…
…cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without solidification or crystallization…
…a nutrient-rich food considered to be especially beneficial for health and well-being…
…a very strong quick-setting adhesive, based on cyanoacrylates or similar polymers…
…a benevolent fictional character with superhuman powers, such as Superman…
…a user of a computer system with special privileges needed to administer and maintain the system; a system administrator…
…a weed which is extremely resistant to herbicides, especially one created by the transfer of genes from genetically modified crops into wild plants…
…a representative of the ship’s owner on board a merchant ship, responsible for overseeing the cargo and its sale…
…fit or design (an internal-combustion engine) with a supercharger…
…a very large star that is even brighter than a giant, often despite being relatively cool…
…an exceptionally successful rock group or one formed by musicians already famous from playing in other groups…
…relating to or denoting an element with an atomic mass or atomic number greater than those of the naturally occurring elements, especially one belonging to a group above atomic number 110 having proton/neutron ratios which in theory confer relatively long half-lives…
…a very powerful and influential nation (used especially with reference to the US and the former Soviet Union when these were perceived as the two most powerful nations in the world)…
…denoting a microprocessor architecture where several instructions are loaded at once and, as far as possible, are executed simultaneously, shortening the time taken to run the whole program…
…a large and powerful state formed from a federation or union of nations…
…(in the Democratic Party) an unelected delegate who is free to support any candidate for the presidential nomination at the party’s national convention…
…a number that is much more than half of a total, especially in a vote…
…having a mass many times (typically between 106 and 109 times) that of the sun…
…a group of largely allopatric species which are descended from a common evolutionary ancestor and are closely related but too distinct to be regarded as subspecies of one species…
…a person significantly older than 100 years of age, typically one who has reached the age of 110…
…each of several large land masses (notably Pangaea, Gondwana, and Laurasia) thought to have divided to form the present continents in the geological past…
…the amount by which the outer edge of a curve on a road or railway is banked above the inner edge…
