Taken for ___ (swindled) Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

TAKEN (adjective)
1. understood in a certain way; made sense of
2. be affected with an indisposition

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Across

1. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "landlocked country in Asia on the northeast border of India"

6. React to a round of applause

9. Iris family plants

10. Latin for "eggs"

11. Amassed, as a large tab

12. Room in the "Brady Bunch" house

13. NOUN: "a gentle breeze"

15. "Either you take care of this, ___ will"

17. VERB: "to produce or furnish as return"

19. Harry Truman's First Lady

21. Oklahoma city

22. NOUN: "a game played with a set of small objects that are tossed, caught, and moved in various figures"

24. VERB: "to obtain by concession or entreaty"

25. NOUN: "a place of worship serving a residence or institution"

27. NOUN: "a member of an Indigenous people originally ranging through [several Western states]"

31. NOUN: "a male turkey"

32. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Ludwig (Edler) von 1881–1973 Austrian economist"

33. VERB: "present tense second-person singular and present tense plural of be"

34. NOUN: "an unstressed mid-central vowel (such as the usual sound of the first and last vowels of the English word America)"

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Down

1. Washington, D.C. and its surrounding counties, briefly

2. NOUN: "a period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic feature"

3. NOUN: "swindle in which some early investors are paid off with money put up by later ones in order to encourage more and bigger risks"

4. Take __ from (emulate)

5. ADJECTIVE: "given to back talk"

6. NOUN: "motions made in a usually unconscious effort to influence the progress of a propelled object (such as a ball)"

7. Be atop

8. ADJECTIVE: "lacking vitality"

14. VERB: "to go quickly"

15. ABBREVIATION: "relating to, characteristic of, or constituting the case of words that follow prepositions or transitive verbs"

16. NOUN: "a device for the controlled release of nuclear energy (as for producing heat)"

18. Pesticide mentioned in the song "Big Yellow Taxi"

20. Jamaican music genre

23. Sends unwanted emails to

26. Dane or Church

27. Stage great ___ Hagen

29. NOUN: "moisture condensed upon the surfaces of cool bodies especially at night"

30. That thing, in Spanish

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