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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. Mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus.
12. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. A literary language of Chinese Turkestan (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).
17. The last (12th) month of the year.
18. Having leadership guidance.
19. The property of being very small in size.
20. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. The central area of a church.
24. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
26. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
30. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. A region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
34. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
38. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
40. Roman general who commanded the fleet that defeated the forces of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium (63-12 BC).
42. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
43. A lightweight triangular scarf worn by a woman.
46. At full speed.
47. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
49. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
50. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
51. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
53. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
56. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
57. An arc-shaped whitish deposit sometimes seen in the cornea.
60. African antelope with ridged curved horns.
63. A Hindu prince or king in India.
65. Genus of herbs of southern United States.
67. Metal supports for logs in a fireplace.
71. The fatty flesh of eel.
72. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
75. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
76. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
77. French philosopher and theologian.
79. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
80. A doctor's degree in theology.
81. Filled with a great quantity.
82. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
5. North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
6. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
7. Front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere.
8. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
9. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
10. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
11. A city in Tuscany.
12. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
13. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
22. God of wealth and love.
25. An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
29. A flexible container with a single opening.
32. Immature of its kind.
33. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
35. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
36. Of or relating to the spine or spinal cord.
37. The capital of Bahrain.
39. A large number or amount.
41. A genus of Ploceidae.
44. Being nine more than forty.
45. Step on it.
48. At or constituting a border or edge.
52. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
54. An independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands.
55. Jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds.
58. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
59. Not subjected to an aging process.
61. God of death.
62. Treated with oil.
64. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
66. The 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
68. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
69. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
70. Offering fun and gaiety.
73. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
74. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
78. A doctor's degree in religion.
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