Crossword Puzzle Number 1345 (Small Grid)

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. The branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light.
10. An honorary degree in science.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. A wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay.
15. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
16. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
18. The short weak cry of a young bird.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
22. An officer of the law.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
30. The airforce of Great Britain.
32. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
36. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
39. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
40. Tender and brittle.
43. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
45. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
46. A blind god.
47. French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879).
49. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
52. An honorary law degree.
53. (historically) A member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire.
56. Production of a certain amount.
60. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
61. Lower in esteem.
64. A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
65. British dominion over India (1757-1947).
66. Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574).
68. A passage with access only at one end.
69. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
70. A port city in southwestern Iran.
71. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
4. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
5. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
6. The extreme end of something.
7. Water frozen in the solid state.
8. A Hindu disciple of a swami.
9. One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower.
10. A fraudulent business scheme.
11. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
12. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
17. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
21. An orderly arrangement.
23. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
25. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
28. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
29. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
31. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
33. The basic unit of money in Peru.
34. American novelist (1909-1955).
35. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A neutral middle vowel.
42. Receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart.
43. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
44. The month following June and preceding August.
48. A master's degree in religion.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Squash bugs.
54. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. A Hindu prince or king in India.
57. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
58. (Welsh) A warrior god.
59. A small wooded hollow.
62. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
63. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
67. Not out.

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