Crossword Puzzle Number 2176 (Small Grid)

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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
9. Slightly open.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. A particular environment or walk of life.
15. Type genus of the Ranidae.
16. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
17. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
18. A primeval personification of air and breath.
19. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
21. A mock scepter carried by a court jester.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
27. 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.
28. The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
31. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
33. Before noon.
35. Wood of any of various alder trees.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A genus of Ploceidae.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. A state in midwestern United States.
47. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
48. Make amends for.
50. South African term for `boss'.
52. Learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it.
56. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
60. The sixth month of the civil year.
61. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
64. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
65. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
66. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
67. On or toward the lee.
68. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
69. Containing or filled with salt.
70. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
5. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
6. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
7. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
8. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
9. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
10. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
11. Administer an oil or ointment to.
12. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
20. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
29. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
30. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
32. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
34. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
36. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
38. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
40. God of the earth.
41. One or some or every or all without specification.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
49. Suggestive of the supernatural.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
52. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
53. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
54. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
55. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
57. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
58. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
62. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
63. An engineering university in Cambridge.

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