Crossword Puzzle Number 2217 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
4. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
10. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
13. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
14. Open to change.
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. Black tropical American cuckoo.
17. The superior of an abbey of monks.
19. A state in southwestern Germany famous for its beer.
21. A port city in southwestern Iran.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
28. A soft silvery metallic element.
29. A boat with a flat bottom for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
33. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
35. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
37. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
38. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
39. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
42. A Spanish female Gypsy.
44. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
46. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. Wild ginger.
48. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
51. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
56. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
60. Jordan's port.
63. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
64. Floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile).
65. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
67. A master's degree in fine arts.
68. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
69. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
70. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.

DOWN

1. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
2. The basic unit of money in Yemen.
3. (British) A person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes.
4. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
5. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
6. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
7. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
8. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
9. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. By bad luck.
22. Characteristic of a baby.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
26. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
27. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
30. A deep prolonged loud noise.
31. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
32. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
34. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
41. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
43. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
45. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. Jordan's port.
50. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
52. A shade of blue tinged with green.
53. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
54. Ulcerated chilblain on the heel.
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
57. The highest level or degree attainable.
58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. The sixth month of the civil year.
61. The sound made by a cow or bull.
62. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
66. Before noon.

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