Crossword Puzzle Number 1071 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow.
4. European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Take in solid food.
14. Any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules.
15. (informal) A bunch.
16. Singing jazz.
18. A fraudulent business scheme.
20. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
21. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
23. An informal term for a father.
24. One millionth of a gram.
25. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
27. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
30. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
32. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. One who works hard at boring tasks.
41. A town in central Belgium.
42. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
44. A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter.
45. The seed of the cereal grass.
47. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
49. Submersible vessel for one or two persons.
53. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
57. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
58. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
61. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
63. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
65. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
66. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
67. Choose and follow.
68. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.

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1. A state of confusion and disorderliness.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. Male red deer.
4. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
5. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
6. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
7. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. An honorary degree in science.
10. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
17. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
19. A master's degree in fine arts.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
28. Heal or recover.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. A young woman making her debut into society.
33. (legal terminology) The Latin word for wife.
34. Reflecting optimism.
35. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
37. God of love and erotic desire.
38. A genus of Lamnidae.
40. A loss of will power.
41. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
43. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
46. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
48. A light touch or stroke.
50. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
51. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
52. With no effort to conceal.
54. Framework for holding objects.
55. A slender double-reed instrument.
56. A quantity of no importance.
59. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
60. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
64. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).

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