Crossword Puzzle Number 1216 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. The face or front of a building.
10. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
13. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
14. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
15. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
16. The location of something surrounded by other things.
18. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
19. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. A city in northern India.
22. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
24. Lacking excess flesh.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
28. A deep bow.
30. A telegram sent abroad.
34. A radioactive transuranic element.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. Being one more than two.
44. A genus of Ploceidae.
47. That is to say.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
53. A slight amount or degree of difference.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
64. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
65. The month following February and preceding April.
66. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
68. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
69. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
70. Ground snakes.
71. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.

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1. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
2. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
3. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
4. Having much flesh (especially fat).
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. Informal terms for a human head.
9. Related on the mother's side.
10. A fraudulent business scheme.
11. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
12. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
17. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
26. Affect with wonder.
29. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
31. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
32. Set down according to a plan.
33. English essayist (1775-1834).
35. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
42. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
45. Go ashore.
46. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
49. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
54. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
55. Being one more than fifty.
56. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
57. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
58. Sewing that repairs a worn or torn place in a garment.
59. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
60. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
61. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
63. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
67. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.

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