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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. Lacking in strength or firmness or resilience.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. A person who is rejected (from society or home).
15. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
16. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
17. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Of or like a cecum.
24. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
27. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
28. The month following July and preceding September.
29. Jordan's port.
32. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
41. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
48. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
49. An informal term for a father.
50. Employed in accomplishing something.
51. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
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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. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
5. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
6. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.
7. The basic unit of money in Macao.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
19. A state in midwestern United States.
21. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
25. A state in northwestern North America.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
34. English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992).
35. Deciduous shrub of North America.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. South African term for `boss'.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
44. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
47. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
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