Crossword Puzzle Number 2553 (Small Grid)

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1. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
4. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
10. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
13. A light touch or stroke.
14. A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia north of Afghanistan.
15. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
16. An antibiotic (a semisynthetic oral penicillin (trade names Amoxil and Larotid and Polymox and Trimox and Augmentin)) used to treat bacterial infections.
18. Usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first.
20. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
21. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
22. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. Informal terms for a mother.
28. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
30. A French abbot.
34. The second largest city in Tunisia.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Set down according to a plan.
37. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
39. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
41. An island in the Mediterranean.
43. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. A human limb.
46. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
51. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
54. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
58. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
59. A local and well-defined elevation of the land.
62. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
63. Not in.
65. On or toward the lee.
66. A unit of pressure.
67. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
2. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
3. Little known Kamarupan languages.
4. A city in central New York.
5. (Greek mythology) A maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers.
6. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. Jordan's port.
10. An endorsement.
11. Capital and largest city of Italy.
12. A submachine gun operated by gas pressure.
17. An antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
26. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
27. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
29. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
31. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
33. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
38. English monk and scholar (672-735).
40. The act of scanning.
42. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. Find repugnant.
48. In or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be.
50. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
52. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
53. Large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas.
55. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
60. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
61. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
64. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
65. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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