Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The second largest state
- 1 Across
- A midwestern state in central United States
- 6 Across
- Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation
- 9 Across
- Coins collectively
- 11 Across
- A program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device (plural)
- 13 Across
- The ___ of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group
- 14 Across
- A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- 15 Across
- The policy of perpetuating ___ cultures
- 16 Across
- A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution
- 2 Down
- A secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
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- A group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
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- A middle way between two extremes
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- Having highly developed ___
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- A drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving
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- The ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events
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- A machine that separates the seeds from raw ___ fibers
- 12 Down