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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
10. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
13. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
14. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
15. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
16. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
18. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
20. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
23. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
24. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. Offering fun and gaiety.
32. Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land.
33. Deliberately impassive in manner.
35. A state in midwestern United States.
36. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. A motley assortment of things.
48. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
52. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
54. (informal) Of the highest quality.
55. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
56. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
60. An open box attached to a long pole handle.
61. A port city in southwestern Iran.
64. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
65. Used of a single unit or thing.
66. A race between teams.
67. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
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1. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
2. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites).
3. Offering little or no hope.
4. A bachelor's degree in science.
5. Of or belonging to an aecium.
6. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
10. A blind god.
11. A slender double-reed instrument.
12. Something that hinders as if with bonds v 1.
17. God of wealth and love.
19. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
21. Related on the mother's side.
22. A master's degree in fine arts.
26. A human female who does housework.
28. A light touch or stroke.
29. An accountant certified by the state.
30. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
31. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
38. Relating to or derived from a glacier.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. A covered passageway.
43. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. How long something has existed.
46. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
49. A telegram sent abroad.
50. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
51. A cravat with wide square ends.
53. A worthless lazy fellow.
54. A state in northwestern North America.
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. A branch of the Tai languages.
59. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
62. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
63. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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