Crossword Puzzle Number 1343 (Small Grid)

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1. A globular water bottle used in Asia.
5. Sour or bitter in taste.
10. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
13. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
14. Type genus of the Gavidae.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. A language of Australian aborigines.
18. Strong and sharp.
19. (combining form) Former.
20. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
21. A sudden numbing dread.
23. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
24. Wood of a sumac.
27. American novelist (1909-1955).
30. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
34. Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio.
35. A bachelor's degree in science.
36. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. By bad luck.
40. A thrusting blow with a knife.
43. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
44. Avatar of Vishnu.
45. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
46. A small piece of cloth.
48. Before noon.
49. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.
50. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
52. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
55. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
56. Having a woven pattern.
59. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
61. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
63. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
65. A landlocked republic in southern central Africa.
67. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
68. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
69. A member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock.
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
2. Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns.
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
4. Wear away.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
7. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
8. A state in New England.
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
11. A socially awkward or tactless act.
12. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
17. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
22. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
25. Any expected deliverer.
26. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
28. Offering fun and gaiety.
29. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
33. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
39. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
41. Any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber.
42. An awl for making small holes for brads or small screws.
43. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
51. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
52. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
53. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
54. God of death.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
58. God of love and erotic desire.
60. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
62. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
66. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.

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