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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
8. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
11. A rapid bustling commotion.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
14. A decree that prohibits something.
15. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A native of ancient Troy.
21. An oil port in southern Iraq.
23. An associate degree in applied science.
24. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. A light touch or stroke.
36. African mahogany trees.
39. Type genus of the Gavidae.
43. The fatty flesh of eel.
44. 36th President of the United States.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.).
49. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
51. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
52. Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government.
53. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
54. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
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1. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
4. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
7. A deep bow.
8. A large number or amount.
9. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
10. A city of central China.
18. United States singer and film actor (1904-1977).
20. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
26. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. (trademark) An antacid.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. Characteristic of false pride.
41. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
42. Beside one another in a row or rank.
45. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
46. (psychophysics) The difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected.
50. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
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