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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
13. An associate degree in applied science.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. Advanced in years.
16. The seed of the cereal grass.
17. A fraudulent business scheme.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
25. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
30. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
33. Obvious and dull.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. An accountant certified by the state.
38. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
42. Lower in esteem.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
50. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
51. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
52. In bed.
53. Goddess of fate.
54. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
55. A small cake leavened with yeast.
56. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
5. A periodic paperback publication.
6. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
7. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. One thousandth of a second.
18. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
23. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
24. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
28. A state in the eastern United States.
29. An associate degree in nursing.
31. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
37. A genus of Ploceidae.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
44. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
45. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
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