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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. (often followed by `of') Not aware.
11. A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Genus of North American and east Asian perennial herbs.
17. Beyond what is natural.
18. Squash bugs.
20. United States playwright (1906-1963).
21. The act of catching an object with the hands.
22. Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694).
24. The amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation.
26. A state in midwestern United States.
27. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
31. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
34. Some unspecified time in the future.
38. An impression made from an etched plate.
40. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
41. South African term for `boss'.
44. (British) Your grandmother.
45. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
46. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
48. A ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority.
50. A radioactive transuranic element synthesized from californium.
51. Provide what is desired or needed, esp. support, food or sustenance.
53. Agitation resulting from active worry.
54. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
56. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
57. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
59. A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
60. Informal terms for a mother.
66. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
70. Jordan's port.
72. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
73. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
74. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
75. Make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing.
78. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
79. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
80. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
81. A boy or man.
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1. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
2. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. Being without physical aid.
5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
6. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
7. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
8. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
9. A groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).
10. A garnet ranging in color from yellow to brown.
11. A mountain range in northern Kashmir.
12. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
13. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
14. A specific instance of feeling hopeful.
19. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
23. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. How long something has existed.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. Widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers.
33. Related on the father's side.
35. United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935).
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves.
39. (prefix) Within.
42. Type genus of the Anatidae.
43. Stalk of a moss capsule.
47. Usually included in genus Cardamine.
49. Again but in a new or different way.
52. Having no parts resembling rays.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
58. A light touch or stroke.
61. A Loloish language.
62. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
63. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
64. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
65. The 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
67. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
68. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
69. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
71. Inquire about.
76. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
77. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
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