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1. The act of scanning.
5. Small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.
12. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
15. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other.
16. Correction by erasing.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
18. (Hindu mythology) The most important of the princes in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God.
19. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.
22. A state in New England.
23. (followed by `to') Having come to accept.
25. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
28. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
29. Type genus of the Blattidae.
33. A white trivalent metallic element.
35. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
38. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
39. A person regarded as greedy and pig-like.
43. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
44. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. The unit of frequency.
48. A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment.
49. (South African) An ear of corn.
51. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
54. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
56. A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula.
57. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
60. British composer (1857-1934).
61. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
63. Exultantly proud and joyful.
67. South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax.
70. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
71. In bed.
72. Act in a way that attracts attention.
75. Being ten more than one hundred eighty.
76. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
77. (of a liquid) Treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification.
78. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
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1. A moving crowd.
2. Candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers.
3. Lie adjacent to another.
4. Neither moral nor immoral.
5. A person of mean disposition.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
8. Earlier a god.
9. An area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq.
10. A horizontal bar that goes across something.
11. In or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air.
12. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
13. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
24. Any of various thin shiny (savory or sweet) coatings applied to foods.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
30. United States abolitionist (1786-1865).
31. An island in the south Pacific.
32. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
34. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
36. A Loloish language.
37. A small spineless globe-shaped cactus.
40. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
41. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
42. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
47. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube.
50. Regional and archaic.
52. A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
53. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.
55. Sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food.
58. At surface level.
59. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
62. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
64. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.
65. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
66. (British colloquialism) An excavation.
68. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
69. The products of human creativity.
73. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
74. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
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