Crossword Puzzle Number 2017 (Small Grid)

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1. Cut off from a whole.
4. The cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens.
9. The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid).
13. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
14. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
15. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.
18. Having been read.
19. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
21. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
23. Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central and South America.
25. An oil port in southern Iraq.
29. Cry plaintively.
33. Loss of the ability to swallow.
35. Affect with wonder.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
42. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
44. A characteristic sound.
46. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
47. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
49. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
53. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
56. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
57. East Indian annual erect herb.
60. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
61. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
62. Wild geese.
64. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
65. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
66. Make attractive or lovable.
67. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
4. Young of domestic cattle.
5. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
6. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
7. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
8. 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.
9. Short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of south and southeast Asia.
10. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
11. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
12. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
20. Type genus of the Amiidae.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
27. A branch of the Tai languages.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A boy or man.
31. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
32. A visual presentation showing how something works.
34. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
36. A medium for oil-paints.
39. An American operation in World War I (1918).
40. An oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
45. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
48. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
49. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
50. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
51. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
52. A French abbot.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. God of love and erotic desire.
58. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
59. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
63. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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