Possible Clues:

• Test-grading aid
• "The Star-Spangled Banner" author
• A major, maybe
• What Allentown, Pa. gave Billy Joel
• *Basketball area
• F or G, but not H
• Coral reef off southern coast of Florida
• Island where dockers are employed, we hear
• ''The Defense of Fort McHenry'' author
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