Crossword Puzzle Number 2888 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. A Formosan language.
10. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. A rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm.
15. A small piece of cloth.
16. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
17. To fix or set securely or deeply.
19. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
23. Having the slant of a bevel.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. (chemistry, physics, biology) Resistant to change.
29. An implement used to erase something.
32. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
33. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
35. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. An informal term for a father.
40. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
41. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. Informal terms for a mother.
47. Type genus of the Majidae.
50. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
53. Deprive of by deceit.
56. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
59. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
60. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
63. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
64. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
66. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
67. Report or maintain.
68. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
69. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
70. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.

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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. Water buffalo of the Philippines.
4. Tranquilizer and antidepressant (trade name Triavil) sometimes used as an antiemetic for adults.
5. (Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king.
6. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
7. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
8. A salt or ester of hydriodic acid.
9. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
10. Noisy quarrel.
11. A Loloish language.
12. Advanced in years.
18. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
24. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
26. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
28. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
30. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
31. Avatar of Vishnu.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
39. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
45. The cry made by sheep.
48. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
49. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
51. Obvious and dull.
52. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
53. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
54. English essayist (1775-1834).
55. An informal term for a father.
57. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
58. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
61. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
62. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
65. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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