Crossword Puzzle Number 2315 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
5. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
9. A large number or amount.
13. Common Indian weaverbird.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
16. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
17. Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.
18. Hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella.
19. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
21. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
23. A state in midwestern United States.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
31. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. Half the width of an em.
38. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
45. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957).
48. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
50. National capital of Kiribati.
53. A Loloish language.
54. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
58. The second largest city in Tunisia.
59. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
62. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
65. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
66. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
67. Small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar.
68. The compass point that is one point south of due east.

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1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
3. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
4. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A bachelor's degree in theology.
8. A member of the Algonquian people living in Wisconsin the Fox River valley and the shores of Green Bay.
9. Send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code.
10. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
11. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
12. Gull-like jaeger of northern seas.
20. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
22. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
24. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
25. 16 ounces.
28. In bed.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
32. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
33. A recognizable kind.
34. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
40. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
42. Characteristic of a baby.
43. A member of the Algonquian people living in Wisconsin the Fox River valley and the shores of Green Bay.
44. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
46. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
49. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
51. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
52. Any competition.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
57. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
60. An accidental happening.
61. The cry made by sheep.
62. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
63. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
64. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.

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