Legal claim (4 letters)

College achievement (6 letters)

Morning sound (5 letters)

White House advisory grp. (3 letters)

Murray of "The Merry Widow": 1925 (3 letters)

Dipped water out of a boat (6 letters)

Kind of pipe (5 letters)

Spy's secret (4 letters)

Navy's C.I.A. (3 letters)

The U.K. is in it, but Ire. is not (4 letters)

Putin put-down? (4 letters)

Diplomats (8 letters)