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1. The act of scanning.
5. Letter carrier's shoulder bag.
12. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
15. The closing section of a musical composition.
16. Of or relating to the enteron.
17. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
18. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
19. Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. Shrub bearing round-fruited kumquats.
24. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
26. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
27. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
29. A native-born Israeli.
31. Arranged or displayed systematically in table form.
34. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
37. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
38. In bed.
40. French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757).
42. A person of subnormal intelligence.
44. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
46. Light carriage.
49. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments.
50. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
53. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
54. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
60. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
62. A curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree.
64. An uneasy state.
68. Irritate or vex.
69. Lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion.
72. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
73. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
74. American gurnard.
75. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
76. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
77. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
78. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
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1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. (Greek mythology) Daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. A city in western Kenya.
5. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
6. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
7. The base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled.
8. A three-tone Chadic language.
9. Armor plate that protects the arm.
10. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
11. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
12. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
13. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
14. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
21. Found along western Atlantic coast.
23. A motley assortment of things.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
30. The cry made by sheep.
32. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
33. English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824).
35. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
36. An authoritative person who divines the future.
39. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
41. Laborer who works in a mine.
43. Bid over an opponent's bid when one's partner has not bid or doubled, in Bridge.
47. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
48. Austrian painter influenced by art nouveau (1862-1918).
51. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
52. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
55. A former British gold coin worth 21 chillings.
56. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
57. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
58. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
59. (of something seen or heard) Clearly defined.
61. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
63. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
65. The twelfth month of the civil year.
66. Avatar of Vishnu.
67. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet.
71. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
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