Crossword Puzzle Number 2372 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A unit of pressure.
4. An island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey.
9. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
13. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
14. A morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. Being one more than nine.
17. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
28. An associate degree in applied science.
32. A quantity of no importance.
36. Of or relating to alga.
38. A town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River.
40. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
42. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
43. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
47. A light touch or stroke.
48. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
49. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
51. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
54. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
56. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
60. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
62. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
65. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
66. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
69. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
70. An enclosed space.
71. Ground snakes.
72. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.

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1. An honorary arts degree.
2. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
3. An island northwest of Wales.
4. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
5. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
6. Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
7. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
10. The sixth month of the civil year.
11. A small cake leavened with yeast.
12. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
20. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
27. 16 ounces.
29. Unusually short.
30. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
31. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
33. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
34. An informal term for a father.
35. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A master's degree in business.
46. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. Type genus of the Ranidae.
53. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
55. In bed.
57. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
58. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
59. Two items of the same kind.
61. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
63. Used of a single unit or thing.
64. The cry made by sheep.
67. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
68. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.

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