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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. The fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
12. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. A battle during the American Revolutionary War (1777).
17. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
18. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
20. An atom having a valence of one.
21. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
22. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
23. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
31. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
34. Old-fashioned and out of date.
38. Someone who bakes commercially.
40. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
41. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
42. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
46. The address where a person lives.
49. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
51. Failing to detonate.
52. A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction.
53. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
57. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
58. A fraudulent business scheme.
61. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
63. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
64. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
68. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
71. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
74. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
75. Towards the side away from the wind.
76. (Mexico) Thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour.
77. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
78. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.
79. Unshaken in purpose.
80. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
2. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
3. Serving as or forming a base.
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
5. The cry made by sheep.
6. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
7. Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail.
8. Spray very finely.
9. (linguistics) Of speech sounds.
10. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
11. (informal) Roused to anger.
12. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
13. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
14. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
19. A telegram sent abroad.
24. (Hinduism) An ascetic holy man.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
30. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).
32. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).
33. A city in northeastern Ohio.
35. A genus of Ploceidae.
36. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
37. United States tennis player who dominated men's tennis in the 1920s (1893-1953).
39. Wood of a pecan tree.
43. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
44. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
45. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
47. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof.
48. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
54. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
56. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
60. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
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