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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
11. The sign language used in the United States.
12. Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir.
13. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
17. A local computer network for communication between computers.
18. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
20. Capital and largest city of Cuba.
22. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
24. Extremely pleasing.
25. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
28. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
33. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
36. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
41. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
46. 10 grams.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
53. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. A young woman making her debut into society.
57. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
2. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
3. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
4. 16 ounces.
5. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
6. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
7. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. A city of central China.
10. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
15. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
19. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
21. A state in the eastern United States.
23. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. A light touch or stroke.
34. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
35. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
38. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
40. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
42. Common Indian weaverbird.
44. In bed.
45. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
47. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
49. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
50. The bill in a restaurant.
54. A Russian river.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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