Crossword Puzzle Number 2870 (Small Grid)

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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. Type genus of the Cynipidae.
10. Inquire about.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Having leadership guidance.
17. Sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. Singing jazz.
21. Compete for something.
22. Jordan's port.
24. In bed.
27. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
31. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. Using speech rather than writing.
39. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
40. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
43. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.
47. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. An associate degree in applied science.
52. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
55. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
59. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
63. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
64. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
66. On or toward the lee.
67. A doctor's degree in education.
68. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
5. A name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH.
6. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
7. Not in action or at work.
8. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
9. Short and fat.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
20. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
28. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
29. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
30. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
32. Before noon.
33. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
34. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
36. Little known Kamarupan languages.
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
38. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. The cry made by sheep.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. Any plant of the genus Erica.
50. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
52. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
53. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
54. Food for domestic livestock.
56. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
57. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
58. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
60. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
61. An awkward stupid person.
62. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
65. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.

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