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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. Saw used with one hand for cutting metal.
11. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
15. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. A river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea.
17. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
18. A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence.
20. The capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. A desert in southern Israel.
23. A familiar name (often a shortened version of a person's given name).
27. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
30. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
31. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
35. The time that has elapsed.
36. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
38. Sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains.
39. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
41. Being one more than nine.
42. A three-tone Chadic language.
43. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone).
50. Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal.
53. Any plant of the genus Erica.
55. Informal terms for a mother.
56. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
58. Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.
60. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
64. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
67. Make anew.
68. A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas.
71. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
72. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
73. Live in or as if in a tent.
74. Type genus of the Anatidae.
75. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
76. Tending to speak irritably.
77. Goods or money obtained illegally.
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1. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
2. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
5. An associate degree in nursing.
6. Type genus of the Ciconiidae.
7. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
8. In some classifications considered a subgenus of Carduelis.
9. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
10. A city in southwestern Poland on the Oder.
11. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
14. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
19. Tropical American trees.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
26. The fans of a sport or famous person.
28. Come or be in close contact with.
29. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
32. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
33. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
34. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
37. God of the earth.
40. To fix or set securely or deeply.
44. German chemist (1818-1892).
45. Of or relating to an arm.
48. A sizeable hole (usually in the ground).
49. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
51. Accumulate on the surface.
52. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
54. To patch up or renovate.
57. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
59. (archaic) The emperor of Japan.
61. A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector.
62. The content of cognition.
63. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
65. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
66. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
69. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
70. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
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