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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. A contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite.
11. A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers.
17. An elaborate song for solo voice.
18. An enclosed space.
19. Used improperly or excessively especially drugs.
20. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
21. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
23. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
25. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
27. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
29. A Hindu prince or king in India.
32. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
36. Being eight more than fifty.
40. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
45. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
46. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
48. A blind god.
52. A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system.
54. Behavior or language bordering on indelicacy.
56. Show a response or a reaction to something.
59. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
60. Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote that a grandparent).
63. Deprive of by deceit.
67. The cry made by sheep.
68. Feeling intense pleasurable excitement.
71. An associate degree in applied science.
72. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
73. Type and sole genus of the family Leiopelmatidae.
74. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
75. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
76. Having an illustrious reputation.
77. The basic unit of money in Romania.
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1. Of or in or relating to the nose.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
4. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
5. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
6. (Babylonian) The sky god.
7. Cut in half or cut in two.
8. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
9. Used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.
10. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
11. A warning against certain acts.
12. Toward the mouth or oral region.
13. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
14. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
22. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
24. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
28. Adorned by inlays.
30. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
31. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
33. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
34. The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning.
35. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
37. A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance.
38. A flexible container with a single opening.
39. Gone by.
43. An informal term for a father.
44. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
47. Island in West Indies.
49. Not widely known.
50. Kauri pine.
51. The academic world.
53. A close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
57. French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875).
58. Lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food.
61. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
62. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
64. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
65. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
66. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
69. Towards the side away from the wind.
70. An advanced law degree.
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