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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. A battle during the American Revolutionary War (1777).
12. A light touch or stroke.
15. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
16. Any of various plants of the genus Centaurium.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
18. Of or relating to Moses or the laws and writings attributed to him.
20. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
25. French royal architect who built the Tuileries Palace and Gardens in Paris for Catherine de Medicis (1515-1570).
27. The middle of the day.
29. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
30. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
33. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
37. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
39. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
43. Adopted in order to deceive.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
45. Of or containing iridium.
49. (informal) Of the highest quality.
50. Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or the keel of a ship.
51. A tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives.
53. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
55. Someone employed by a gas company.
56. Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain.
60. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
63. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
67. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
71. Fiddler crabs.
72. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
74. Of inferior or mixed breed.
75. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
76. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
77. Related by blood.
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1. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
2. Isolated from others.
3. An early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica.
4. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
7. On, to, or at the top.
8. United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975).
9. Someone who is a member of the vanguard.
10. The father of your father or mother.
11. A port in southwestern Scotland.
12. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
19. A primeval personification of air and breath.
23. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
24. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
26. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
28. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
31. Grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.
32. Reduce in worth, character, etc..
34. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
35. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
36. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
38. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
40. Send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code.
41. Of or relating to or involving an area.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. Not in action or at work.
47. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
48. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
52. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
54. A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline).
57. Any plant of the genus Erica.
58. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
59. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
61. The provision of money temporarily (usually at interest).
62. Be teeming, be abuzz.
64. Toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric.
65. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
66. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
68. Of southern Europe.
69. An accountant certified by the state.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
73. Being nine more than ninety.
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