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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. A mock scepter carried by a court jester.
10. A flexible container with a single opening.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. A loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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. The state of being contaminated.
18. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
19. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
21. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
23. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
26. Walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet.
30. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
34. Any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers.
37. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
38. A radioactive transuranic element.
40. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
42. An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws.
46. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
47. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
49. Aromatic root of ginseng plants.
52. An island of central Hawaii.
56. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
57. An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
59. A Hindu prince or king in India.
60. The month following February and preceding April.
64. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
65. Kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts.
66. United States composer and music critic (1885-1966).
67. 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).
68. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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1. A magic power or magic spell.
2. A fraudulent business scheme.
3. Common Indian weaverbird.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A member of the Uniat Church.
7. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
8. Gracefully slender.
9. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
10. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
11. A French abbot.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
20. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
22. A town in north central Oklahoma.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
27. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
28. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
35. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A festival featuring African-American culture.
40. A member of the Uniat Church.
43. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
44. (law) A gift of personal property by will.
45. Any of various units of capacity.
48. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
50. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
51. A student who studies excessively.
53. A quantity of no importance.
54. Slightly open.
55. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
58. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
61. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
62. An uproarious party.
63. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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