Crossword Puzzle Number 1495 (Small Grid)

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1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
10. A federally chartered savings bank.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. Jordan's port.
18. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
19. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
20. Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
21. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
26. Squash bugs.
29. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
32. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. In bed.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Founder of Buddhism.
43. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
45. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
46. A inexpensive showy collectibles.
49. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
53. (Roman mythology) Goddess of agriculture.
54. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
57. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
58. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture.
60. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
61. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
62. United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859).
63. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
2. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
5. Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units.
6. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
7. Follower of Rastafarianism.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. 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.
10. Having or localized centrally at a focus.
11. The act of scanning.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
22. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
24. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
25. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
27. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
28. Advanced in years.
30. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
31. A master's degree in business.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
37. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
39. Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.
40. 1 species.
41. The act of scanning.
42. A port and state capital of Tasmania.
44. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
47. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
50. A sudden short attack.
51. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
52. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
53. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
55. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
56. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
57. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
59. Before noon.

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