Crossword Puzzle Number 1785 (Small Grid)

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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
10. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
17. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
19. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
22. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. Water frozen in the solid state.
25. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
28. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
29. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
36. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
39. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. In bed.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. A primeval personification of air and breath.
47. An associate degree in applied science.
49. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
53. An oil port in southern Iraq.
57. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
58. Of a pale purple color.
62. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
63. Extremely pleasing.
64. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
66. The sixth day of the week.
67. Used of a single unit or thing.
68. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
69. The capital and largest city of Japan.

DOWN

1. The 4th planet from the sun.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. Any high mountain.
5. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
6. Away from the mouth or oral region.
7. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
8. Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation.
9. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
18. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
20. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
26. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. The capital of Western Samoa.
30. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
31. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
32. A Loloish language.
34. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
35. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
37. A decree that prohibits something.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. A light touch or stroke.
46. Type genus of the Meliaceae.
48. An enclosed space.
50. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
51. A French abbot.
52. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
54. Free from risk or danger.
55. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
56. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
59. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
60. A toilet in England.
61. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
65. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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