Crossword Puzzle Number 1273 (Small Grid)

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1. Informal terms for a mother.
4. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
10. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
15. Not in good physical or mental health.
16. A member of the Algonquian people formerly living the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic.
18. A town in southwestern Idaho.
20. By bad luck.
21. The bill in a restaurant.
22. Excessively fat.
23. Chief port of Yemen.
25. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
28. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
33. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
36. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
38. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
39. A bachelor's degree in religion.
40. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
41. Type genus of the Amiidae.
42. The act of scanning.
44. A light touch or stroke.
46. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
47. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
51. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
54. A deep bow.
58. A heavy gray-white metallic element.
61. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
62. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').
63. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
66. God of war and sky.
67. 10 grams.
68. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
69. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.

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1. Informal terms for a mother.
2. Using speech rather than writing.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
5. Talk pompously.
6. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
7. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
10. A caustic substance (Ca(OH)2) produced by heating limestone.
11. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
12. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
17. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
19. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
26. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
30. A federally chartered corporation that purchases mortgages.
31. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
32. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
34. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
35. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
37. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
43. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
49. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
50. A genus of Ploceidae.
52. Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers.
53. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
55. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
56. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
57. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
59. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
60. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
64. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
66. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.

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