Crossword Puzzle Number 1708 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An associate degree in applied science.
4. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
9. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
13. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
14. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
15. Radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.
16. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. A formal dance held for a school class toward the end of the academic year.
19. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
20. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
21. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
23. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
25. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
28. A doctor's degree in education.
32. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
33. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
34. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
36. A bar of sand.
40. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
41. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
42. A small constellation in the northern hemisphere near Cygnus and Draco.
44. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. Slanderous defamation.
53. Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809).
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
58. 30 to 300 megahertz.
59. Flat tableland with steep edges.
60. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
61. Take in solid food.

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1. The sixth month of the civil year.
2. A Loloish language.
3. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
4. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
5. Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility).
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. Thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern.
8. Someone whose business is advertising.
9. Causing fear or dread or terror.
10. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
11. Little known Kamarupan languages.
12. Type genus of the Sulidae.
17. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
22. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
24. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
26. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
27. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
29. United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917).
30. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
31. English monk and scholar (672-735).
35. Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
37. (in Scotland) A child.
38. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
39. Any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers.
43. A genus of Ploceidae.
45. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).
47. Produced by a manufacturing process.
48. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
49. The complete duration of something.
50. A person who possesses great material wealth.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
57. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.

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