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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight.
8. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. The highest level or degree attainable.
13. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
14. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
15. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
17. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
18. Before noon.
19. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
20. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. A light touch or stroke.
23. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
25. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
30. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
31. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
33. That is to say.
35. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.
38. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. The capital of Western Samoa.
46. A periodic paperback publication.
47. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
48. The activity of persuading someone to buy.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
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1. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
2. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
3. The cry made by sheep.
4. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
5. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
6. Resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field.
7. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
8. A doctor's degree in optometry.
9. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
10. Jordan's port.
16. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. The last (12th) month of the year.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
39. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
45. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
50. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
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