Crossword Puzzle Number 2422 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance.
4. Type genus of the family Pholadidae.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
14. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. People having the same social or economic status.
18. Place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective).
19. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
21. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. An associate degree in applied science.
26. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
29. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
30. A quantity of no importance.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. Perversely irritable.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
45. A public promotion of some product or service.
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
53. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
57. Any high mountain.
60. 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.
61. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
62. Italian sociologist and economist whose theories influenced the development of fascism in Italy (1848-1923).
64. An informal debt instrument.
65. The month following March and preceding May.
66. A bruise caused by a blow to the eye.
67. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
68. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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1. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
2. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
3. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
4. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
5. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
6. A doctor's degree in optometry.
7. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
8. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
11. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
12. Advanced in years.
17. The act of scanning.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
23. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
25. Unusually short.
27. North American yellow-breasted songbirds.
28. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
31. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
33. Type genus of the Anatidae.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
39. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
43. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
47. An enclosed space.
49. A city in northwestern Syria.
50. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
54. A sudden short attack.
55. Very dark black.
56. Largest known toad species.
58. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
59. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
63. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.

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