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1 family of officials

2 family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)

1 lit. no village ahead and no inn behind (idiom)

2 fig. to be stranded in the middle of nowhere

3 to be in a predicament

1 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

1 remuneration for literary or artistic work

1 tonic water

2 quinine water

1 beef meatballs

1 to be used for

1 prime, key or main suspect (law)

1 to excel in one's field

1 backlash

2 recoil

3 reactive force

1 to seek to recruit

2 to invite job applications from

1 bitmap font (computer)

1 to accumulate manure

2 to lay down compost

1 bright and clear

1 Muscat, capital of Oman

1 with all the majesty of an emperor (idiom)

2 reckless

3 intemperate

1 to apologize

1 lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom); ignorant and narrow-minded

1 approximate estimate

2 a rough count