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5. In a pugnacious manner
6. (computing) decompress a compressed file (often in the 'zip' format)
9. Evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers
14. United States physicist (born in Austria) who was a discoverer of cosmic radiation (1883-1964)
15. 4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1787; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836)

1. The act of sharing in the activities of a group
2. Have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug
3. An island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979
4. A crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference
7. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leave
8. A member of a right wing political party
10. An urban-living fashion-conscious man; a heterosexual with many attributes commonly attributed to gay men
11. A tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air; used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc
12. Type genus of the Parulidae: wood warblers
13. My fault (usually apologetic)