Crossword Puzzle Number 223 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Used of physical heat.
4. Without speed.
10. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
15. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
16. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
18. A quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color.
19. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
20. German mathematician (1804-1851).
22. 1/10 gram.
24. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
30. A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
40. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
43. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. Type genus of the Nepidae.
46. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
47. Jordan's port.
50. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. An unforeseen obstacle.
55. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
59. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
62. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
63. A bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945).
64. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
65. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
66. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
4. A thrusting blow with a knife.
5. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
6. The month following September and preceding November.
7. Mostly black African weaverbird.
8. A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.
9. Up to the present time.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. Speaking a Slavic language.
12. English monk and scholar (672-735).
17. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
21. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
23. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
25. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. The cry made by sheep.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
33. Cut down with an ax.
36. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
41. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
43. Up to the present time.
48. Widely distributed low-growing Eurasian herb having narrow leaves and inconspicuous green flowers.
49. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
53. Large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses.
54. (prefix) Outside or outer.
55. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
56. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
57. A primeval personification of air and breath.
58. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
60. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
61. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.

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