Crossword Puzzle Number 1489 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. An instrument of punishment formerly used in China for petty criminals.
10. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. In the area or vicinity.
15. A rapid bustling commotion.
16. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
17. City in northern Austria on the Danube.
18. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
19. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
21. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. Hoop that covers a wheel.
26. The capital and largest city of Venezuela.
30. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
33. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
34. A light touch or stroke.
36. A soft silvery metallic element.
37. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
38. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
39. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
43. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
54. Lie adjacent to another.
57. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
58. Jordan's port.
61. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
63. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
65. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
66. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
67. Bur marigolds.
68. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.

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1. Situated in or facing or moving toward the east.
2. Cheese containing a blue mold.
3. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
4. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
5. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
6. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
7. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus.
8. A member of the Uniat Church.
9. Excessive desire to eat.
10. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
11. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
12. A manner of performance.
20. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
22. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
24. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
27. A resource.
28. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
29. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
31. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
32. A quantity of no importance.
35. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
40. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
41. A city and port in northern Jutland.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
47. Any plant of the genus Erica.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
52. In bed.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
55. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
56. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
59. God of the earth.
60. An associate degree in applied science.
62. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
64. Not out.

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