Crossword Puzzle Number 2055 (Small Grid)

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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
10. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
13. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
14. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
18. A rational motive for a belief or action.
20. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
21. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
22. The residue that remains when something is burned.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
35. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
36. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
37. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
38. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
39. Slightly open.
41. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
44. Common Indian weaverbird.
45. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
46. Offering fun and gaiety.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
50. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
55. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
59. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
60. Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
63. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
64. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
65. Mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits.
66. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
67. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
68. An empire in South Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
69. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.

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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An equal exchange.
3. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
4. Characteristic of the classical artistic and literary traditions.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
7. 1/1000 gram.
8. Suggestive of the supernatural.
9. Of or relating to or involving an area.
10. The quantity a cask will hold.
11. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.
12. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. Type genus of the Anatidae.
23. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
24. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
27. A Hindu prince or king in India.
28. Distant in either space or time.
30. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
32. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. A city in northern India.
40. Avatar of Vishnu.
42. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
43. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
49. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
51. Advanced in years.
52. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
53. A fit of shivering.
54. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
56. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
57. A slender double-reed instrument.
58. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
61. (Irish) The sea personified.
62. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).

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