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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. An individual portion of food or drink.
11. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
15. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
16. A lack of vitality.
17. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
18. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
19. A battle in World War I (1916).
20. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
21. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. Love of or taste for fine objects of art.
24. A human limb.
28. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
31. An extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America).
32. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
33. A transuranic element.
35. The 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.
39. An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws.
45. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
46. Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America.
47. A tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction.
49. Build up to a level by depositing sediment.
50. A genus of Pyralidae.
51. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
52. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
53. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
55. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
57. Informal terms for a mother.
58. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
60. The act of scanning.
68. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
71. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
72. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
73. An oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina.
75. Any thick messy substance.
76. Seed of a pea plant.
77. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
78. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
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1. Type genus of the Majidae.
2. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
3. (informal) Exceptionally good.
4. A person who possesses great material wealth.
5. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
6. Immature of its kind.
7. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
8. An immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ.
9. A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped.
10. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
11. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
12. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
13. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
14. A city in central Alabama on the Alabama river.
22. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
25. Having a claw or claws.
26. Least expensive statin drug (trade name Lescol).
27. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
29. Put into a rage.
30. The longest river of Asia.
34. The basic unit of money in Macao.
36. Great brightness.
37. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
38. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
40. A native of ancient Troy.
41. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
42. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. Oblong cream puff.
48. A record in which commercial accounts are recorded.
54. A complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules.
56. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
59. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
61. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
62. South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931).
63. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
64. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
65. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
66. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
67. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
69. A branch of the Tai languages.
70. Negation of a word or group of words.
74. A doctor's degree in optometry.
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