Ten Letter Words A-Z - #2

These words are all ten letters long, and start with each letter of the alphabet. From the clues, can you work them out?
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clue
word
A
act as a judge in a competition
adjudicate
B
Lithuania's national sport
basketball
C
animals and soldiers use this to hide themselves
camouflage
D
divers must do this or they'll get the bends
decompress
E
"_______, my dear Watson"
elementary
F
synthetic material that boat hulls and car bodies are made from
fibreglass
G
what a poacher becomes
gamekeeper
H
aircraft that flies using rotor blades
helicopter
I
faultless, flawless
impeccable
J
portable drill for breaking up concrete, etc
jackhammer
K
as its name suggests, a bird that feeds by
diving for fish
kingfisher
L
public, coin-operated, laundry
laundromat
M
very small country, eg Monaco
microstate
 
clue
word
N
coolly casual and unconcerned
nonchalant
O
opposite of oriental
occidental
P
carrier of a coffin at a funeral
pallbearer
Q
one of 5 children from 1 pregnancy
quintuplet
R
nationwide vote on a political question
referendum
S
extended period of leave from work
sabbatical
T
famous Mormon choir
Tabernacle
U
comprehend; make sense of
understand
V
all the plants in an area
vegetation
W
a bird called Woody
woodpecker
X
fear of foreigners
xenophobia
Y
US blackberry variety
youngberry
Z
eggwhite and Marsala-based Italian dessert
zabaglione
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Level 51
Jan 11, 2016
pallbearer, understand and xenophobia are not accepted, maybe more that i didn't know. m clue is vague, i wrote montenegro
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Level 76
Jan 11, 2016
Sorry Eva, they all work now (with a tweaked clue at M as well!)
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Level 76
Jan 11, 2016
It's called zabaione in italian but I don't know if its name got changed in English. Nice quiz!
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Level 76
Jan 11, 2016
So it does! Both spellings appear in the Wikipedia article.
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Level 90
Jan 11, 2016
Immaculate fits as well.
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Level 76
Jan 11, 2016
Ok, that works as well now.