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1 tender yellow

1 Jin county in Liaoning

1 to burst (e.g. a dam)

1 wealth and profit

2 riches

1 on time

2 punctual

3 on schedule

1 Li Gongpu (-1946), communist killed by Guomindang in Kunming in 1946

1 public administration

1 Cape Town (city in South Africa)

1 to be on tenterhooks (idiom)

2 to be anxious and frightened

1 all

2 every

1 air vent

2 opening for ventilation

1 guests filled all the seats (idiom); a house full of distinguished visitors

1 archive box

1 coin

2 to mint (coins)

1 lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73)

2 fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape

3 you can't run from the long arm of the law

1 Talleyrand (name)

2 Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), French diplomat

1 just to get away with one's responsibilities

2 in order to get off the hook

1 medium (of steak)

1 balance (of a watch or clock)

2 balance wheel