Crossword Puzzle Number 2706 (Small Grid)

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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
10. A light touch or stroke.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. A member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila.
21. Jordan's port.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. Before noon.
28. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
30. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
33. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
35. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. A city in northwestern Syria.
37. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
40. A Mid-Atlantic state.
41. An informal term for a father.
42. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. Covered with frost.
48. Type genus of the Anatidae.
51. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
53. Dormouse of southern Europe and northern Africa.
56. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
57. The father of your father or mother.
59. An elaborate song for solo voice.
60. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
62. A branch of the Tai languages.
63. An area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling.
64. A sudden short attack.
65. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another.
2. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
3. God of wealth and love.
4. Characterized by rising prices.
5. Of or relating to anions.
6. A characteristic sound.
7. (informal) Of the highest quality.
8. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
9. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
10. Coffee with the caffeine removed.
11. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
22. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
24. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
25. A new embodiment of a familiar idea.
27. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. English monk and scholar (672-735).
32. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
34. A boy or man.
38. One thousandth of a second.
39. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
43. Swedish economist (1898-1987).
44. Muslims collectively and their civilization.
45. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
47. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
49. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
50. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
52. God of fire.
54. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
55. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
58. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
59. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
61. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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