CROSSWORD 1676

ACROSS

1. A federally chartered savings bank. 4. A member of the Caddo people who formerly lived in the Dakotas west of the Missouri river. 11. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment. 15. Water frozen in the solid state. 16. A resident of Nevada. 17. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports. 18. Knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper. 20. A state in midwestern United States. 21. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk. 22. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia. 23. Remaining after all deductions. 25. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers. 27. Affect with wonder. 29. Deprived of parents by death or desertion. 33. A resource. 36. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm. 37. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn. 40. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret. 43. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series). 44. A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects). 46. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage. 47. A master's degree in library science. 50. Suggestive of the supernatural. 51. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually. 52. The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands. 56. The wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany. 58. Of or containing iridium. 60. Old World field mice. 62. (of words) Formed in imitation of a natural sound. 66. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back. 67. A sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid. 70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. 71. (informal) Of the highest quality. 72. Accumulated on a surface of a solid. 73. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons. 74. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry. 75. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean. 76. The act of using.

DOWN

1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system. 2. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue. 3. A large mass of ice floating at sea. 4. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically. 5. Characteristic of a region. 6. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers. 7. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India. 8. A public promotion of some product or service. 9. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices. 10. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. 11. Chief deity of Zoroastrianism. 12. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River. 13. A local and well-defined elevation of the land. 14. A friendly nation. 19. Distinctive and stylish elegance. 24. Set down according to a plan. 26. An order of Eutheria. 28. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms. 30. A long noosed rope used to catch animals. 31. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for. 32. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 34. Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ. 35. Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it. 38. God of fire. 39. A formal expression of praise. 41. 100 aurar equal 1 krona. 42. The whiteness that results from removing the color from something. 45. A town in southwestern Maine north of Portland. 48. Type genus of the Lobotidae. 49. One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects. 53. A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak). 54. Guinea fowl. 55. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings. 57. With rapid movements. 59. The brightest star in Cygnus. 61. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia. 63. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai). 64. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills. 65. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk. 68. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event. 69. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.