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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. Any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia.
17. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
18. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. Rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria.
20. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
21. Large Indian antelope.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. The square of a body of any size of type.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
28. Used of automobiles.
31. A populous province in northeastern China.
34. Informal terms for your occupation.
35. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
43. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
46. United States film actor (born in Hungary) noted for portraying monsters (1884-1956).
48. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
49. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
53. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
54. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
56. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
57. A Loloish language.
59. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
60. One thousandth of a second.
62. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
65. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
67. A port city in southern Wales on an inlet of the Bristol Channel.
71. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
72. A doctor's degree in music.
75. The bill in a restaurant.
76. A prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms.
80. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
81. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
82. An indirect (and usually malicious) implication.
83. (informal) Roused to anger.
84. Seed of a pea plant.
85. An arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Dignified manner or conduct.
2. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. Form or weave into a braid or braids.
5. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
6. Not in.
7. Something considered choice to eat.
8. The fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear.
9. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
10. Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
11. An upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas).
12. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
13. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
22. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
25. The force of workers available.
29. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
30. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
32. Mostly tropical songbird.
33. The capital and largest city of France.
36. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
37. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
39. A state in midwestern United States.
40. Gathered for protruding fullness.
41. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
44. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
45. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
47. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
51. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
52. A spitz-type dog having a shaggy grayish coat and tightly curled tail originating in Holland.
55. A primeval personification of air and breath.
58. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
61. Metal shackles.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
64. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
66. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
68. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
69. (British) A person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes.
70. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
73. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. An informal term for a father.
77. A small amount of liquid food.
78. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
79. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
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