Crossword Puzzle Number 2009 (Small Grid)

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1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Ending in a sharp point.
10. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A place where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
15. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. Hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
19. A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
21. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
22. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
25. Not agitated.
28. A Russian river.
31. Jordan's port.
36. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
37. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
39. (informal) Of the highest quality.
40. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
41. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
43. A state in northwestern North America.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. A mask with a filter protects the face an lungs against poisonous gases.
55. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
56. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
57. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
58. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
61. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
62. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
63. Short and fat.
64. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Singing jazz.
3. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
4. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
5. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
6. Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area.
7. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
8. An urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city.
9. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
10. Any taillike structure.
11. Something acquired without compensation.
12. Speaking a Slavic language.
18. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
20. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
26. A Loloish language.
27. The habitation of wild animals.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
30. A branch of the Tai languages.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
33. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
34. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
35. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
38. Large Indian antelope.
39. An urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city.
42. Fallow deer.
44. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
45. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
46. A decree that prohibits something.
47. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
48. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
49. Informal terms for a mother.
50. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
52. A thrusting blow with a knife.
53. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
54. God of love and erotic desire.
59. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
60. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.

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