Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The smallest planet and the nearest to the sun
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- Rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos
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- Layer of air around the Earth
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- Very warm
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- A mixture of gases required for breathing
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- The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the ___ of
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- Within the shortest distance
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- Strong metal used to make tools and nails
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- An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"
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- A bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano (plural)
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- Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain
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- Causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
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- A word that expresses a meaning ___ to the meaning of another word
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- Low in temperature; also a sniffly illness
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- The star our planet orbits
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- Frozen water
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