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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).
10. And nothing more.
13. (informal) Of the highest quality.
14. National capital of Kiribati.
15. A transuranic element.
16. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
18. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
23. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
26. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
28. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
30. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
34. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
36. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. Of or relating to or near the sacrum.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. A state in northwestern North America.
50. The superior of a group of nuns.
54. Having or provided with a belt.
55. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
58. Jordan's port.
59. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
60. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
63. (British) Your grandmother.
64. A light touch or stroke.
65. At risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
4. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
6. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
7. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
8. A person of unquestioning obedience.
9. An enclosed space.
10. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
11. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
12. At a specific prior time.
17. The liquid part that can be extracted from fruits and vegetables.
19. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
22. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
25. A genus of Ploceidae.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
32. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
33. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
35. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
38. By bad luck.
42. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
43. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
44. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
47. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. Divulge information or secrets.
53. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
56. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
57. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
61. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
62. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
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