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Esteemed member

• ___ statesman

• ___ statesman (retired politician)

• ___hostel (Road Scholar group)

• Adjective for a statesman

• Adjective for some statesmen

• Advice-giving sort

• Alec vis-

• Authority figure, perhaps

• Berry bearer

• Berry beginning

• Big

• Born first

• Box ___ (tree)

• Box follower

• Bush is held in cruel derision (5)

• Bush of greater age (5)

• Bush senior, e.g.

• Bush, senior (5)

• Cain vis-

• Cain vis-a-vis Abel

• Certain statesman

• Church bigwig

• Church chief

• Church dignitary

• Church figure

• Church functionary

• Church leader

• Church officer

• Church official

• Church V.I.P.

• Church-council member

• Churchman

• Common shrub

• Communion assistant

• Community leader

• Council member, maybe

• Council member, perhaps

• Doyen

• Dumas p

• Esau vis-

• Experienced one

• Figure of authority

• First Nations senior

• Forefather

• Gerontocrat, e.g.

• Golden-ager

• Gore is proposing a $30 billion ___ care program

• Grandparent, e.g.

• Graybeard

• Group leader

• Higher-ranking

• Honeysuckle

• Honeysuckle kin

• Honeysuckle tree

• Hostel opening?

• Influential member

• Influential member of a tribe

• Influential tribesperson

• Kind of berry

• Kind of statesman

• Kiss: Music From the ___

• Laic title

• Lay officer of a church

• Lee of golf

• Lee of the SENIOR PGA TOUR

• Legendary golfer Lee

• Like a big brother

• Like Esau vis-

• Like Frank Hardy, vis-

• Like many statesmen

• Like one Pliny

• Like Pliny

• Like senior statesmen

• Like some statesmen

• Like venerated statesmen

• Member of the church community

• More advanced

• More aged tree (5)

• More mature

• More seasoned, in a way

• Mormon leader

• Mormon missionary

• Mormon official

• Mormon priest

• Mormon title

• Nonagenarian, to many

• Nonvine wine source

• Octogenarian, for one

• Of superior rank

• Official in the church

• Often-consulted church figure

• Old-timer

• Older than you

• One of the Plinys

• One sought for advice

• One to be respected

• One to respect

• One with seniority

• P.G.A.'s Lee ___

• Patriarch

• Person of higher rank

• Person to respect

• Pliny the

• Pliny the ___ (Roman scholar)

• Pliny's title

• Preceding generation member

• Presbyter

• Presbyter in some churches

• Presbyter, e.g.

• Presbyterian official

• Respectable person?

• Respected community member

• Respected figure

• Respected member

• Respected one

• Respected tribe member

• Respected tribesman

• Respected villager

• Revered figure

• Revered one

• Sage

• Senior

• Senior church official

• Senior citizen

• Senior Mormon

• Shrub with berries

• Someone to respect

• Someone with seniority

• Sort of statesman

• Sounder author

• Source of wine berries

• Statesman qualifier

• Superior in rank

• The ___ Wand (Harry Potter object)

• The Sons of Katie ___ (1965)

• Title for Pliny

• Town official

• Tree of the honeysuckle family

• Tree whose berries can be made into wine

• Tree with berries

• Tree with berries used to make wine

• Tree with the most rings?

• Tribal advisor

• Tribal chief

• Tribal chief, often

• Tribal figure

• Tribal head

• Tribal leader

• Tribal leader, often

• Tribal V.I.P.

• Tribe bigwig

• Type of church officer

• Type of statesman

• Valued advice-giver

• Venerable one

• Venerated one

• Venerated tribal member

• Wise one

• Wise one, perhaps

• Word for a statesman

• A person who is older than you are

• Any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

• Any of various church officers