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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
7. South African term for `boss'.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
13. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. How long something has existed.
16. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
17. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
21. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
22. (informal) Of the highest quality.
25. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
28. Lower in esteem.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A French abbot.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
45. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
49. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
50. A tight-fitting headdress.
52. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
53. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A master's degree in fine arts.
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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. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
5. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
6. An endorsement.
7. Divulge information or secrets.
8. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
10. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
18. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
27. An associate degree in applied science.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
31. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
41. God of love and erotic desire.
42. The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
43. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
44. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
46. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. An awkward stupid person.
51. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
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