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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad. 5. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas. 12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside. 15. The act of scanning. 16. With sweetening added. 17. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning. 18. (prefix) Within. 19. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India. 20. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis. 21. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series. 22. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic. 24. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse. 25. Large family of bark-boring or woodboring short-beaked beetles. 30. English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon. 32. An informal term for a father. 33. In a competent capable manner. 34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens. 39. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front. 40. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels. 45. Nonstandard usage adv 1. 48. Evergreen trees and shrubs. 50. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group. 51. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine. 52. (chemistry) Having a valence of two or having two valences. 54. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 56. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja. 57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike. 61. A government tax on imports or exports. 67. Give an education to. 70. Type genus of the family Arcidae. 71. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders. 72. Large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning. 75. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air. 76. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand. 77. The activity of converting from plain text into code. 78. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.

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1. One thousandth of a second. 2. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin. 3. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal. 4. Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule. 5. Inquire about. 6. A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara. 7. Eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms. 8. Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804). 9. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma. 10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling). 11. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit. 12. Of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people. 13. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes. 14. A narrow street with walls on both sides. 23. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north. 26. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank. 27. Elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862). 28. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit. 29. A public promotion of some product or service. 31. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar. 35. Capital and largest city of Iraq. 36. A fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant. 37. Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel. 38. Disposed to avoid notice. 41. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers. 42. Set down according to a plan. 43. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians. 44. A genus of Cichlidae. 46. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs. 47. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group. 49. A motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities. 53. Supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu. 55. An informal term for a father. 58. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas. 59. Many times at short intervals. 60. A bowl-shaped vessel. 62. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear. 63. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona. 64. (British) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s. 65. Harsh or corrosive in tone. 66. Tasting sour like a lemon. 68. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors. 69. Alternative names for the body of a human being. 73. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas. 74. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.