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1. The act of scanning.
5. A town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast.
12. Used of physical heat.
15. Fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes.
16. The god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami.
17. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
18. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh.
20. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha.
22. Talk pompously.
24. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
25. An oil port in southern Iraq.
26. A town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River.
28. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
30. (informal) Of the highest quality.
34. Informal terms for a mother.
37. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
40. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
42. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
44. Enthusiastic approval.
47. Late time of life.
48. (Judaism) An eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem.
50. A historical region of Croatia on the Adriatic Sea.
53. Give life-like qualities to.
54. (histology) The use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study.
55. The seventh month of the civil year.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
60. Being one more than one hundred.
61. A doctor's degree in education.
62. (British) A restaurant where tea and light meals are available.
66. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
68. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
72. A port in southwestern Scotland.
73. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
78. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
81. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
82. Inquire about.
83. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
84. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
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1. The quantity a scoop will hold.
2. The dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted.
3. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
4. Type genus of the Noctuidae.
5. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
6. Of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language.
7. Avatar of Vishnu.
8. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
9. God of wisdom or prophesy.
10. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
11. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
12. The hole that an anchor rope passes through.
13. A European river.
14. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
21. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
23. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
27. A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
29. A resource.
31. (British) The position of headmaster or headmistress.
32. A flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines.
33. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
35. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
36. Type genus of the Manidae.
38. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
39. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
41. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
43. All of the inhabitants of the earth.
45. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
46. Inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.
49. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
51. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff.
52. A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device.
56. A white trivalent metallic element.
59. Cause to adhere.
63. Opinion or judgment.
64. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
65. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
67. God of death.
69. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
70. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
71. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
74. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
80. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
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