Crossword Puzzle Number 1553 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
4. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
10. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
14. A motley assortment of things.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. Included seven times in every 19 years.
18. Jordan's port.
20. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
22. Toward the mouth or oral region.
23. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
26. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
29. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
30. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
34. (Babylonian) The sky god.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
41. Black tropical American cuckoo.
42. Distant in either space or time.
43. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
44. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
45. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
47. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.
51. Informal terms for a mother.
55. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
56. Wife of Balder.
60. Extremely pleasing.
61. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
62. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
63. Used of a single unit or thing.
64. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
65. By bad luck.

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1. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
2. Chief port of Yemen.
3. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
4. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. 1/10 gram.
7. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
8. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. The sixth month of the civil year.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
21. Someone who drives a taxi for a living.
24. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
25. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
27. Again but in a new or different way.
28. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
31. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
32. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
33. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
40. An annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. Of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion.
48. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
49. A French abbot.
50. Unusually short.
52. The food served and eaten at one time.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
57. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
58. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
59. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.

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