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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. Having a bulb.
10. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. Oblong cream puff.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829).
17. A city in central Tanzania.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
21. Deeply absorbed in thought.
25. An associate degree in nursing.
26. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
29. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
30. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
34. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
41. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
43. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
44. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
50. Jordan's port.
53. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
56. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
58. 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.
59. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
60. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
63. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.
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1. A magic power or magic spell.
2. A fraudulent business scheme.
3. Common Indian weaverbird.
4. The 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
5. Fiddler crabs.
6. A three-year law degree.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland.
9. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
10. By bad luck.
11. A narrow way or road.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
22. Become or cause to become unobstructed.
23. A state in midwestern United States.
24. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
27. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
28. Slightly open.
31. A Loloish language.
32. Black tropical American cuckoo.
33. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
37. Not only so, but.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
47. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Type genus of the Bramidae.
51. God of love and erotic desire.
52. The sixth month of the civil year.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. Before noon.
62. In operation or operational.
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