Crossword Puzzle Number 2959 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An impudent or insolent rejoinder.
5. Flowering plant with two cotyledons.
10. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
13. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
14. A small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate.
15. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
16. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
22. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
23. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
25. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
26. Preserve a dead body.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. Related to or located at the back.
38. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
40. Type genus of the Anatidae.
42. American novelist (1909-1955).
43. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
44. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
46. A small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
52. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
53. Fallow deer.
56. Jordan's port.
59. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
60. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
61. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
64. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
65. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
66. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
67. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
2. Earlier a god.
3. A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman.
4. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
5. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
6. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
7. Having three dimensions.
8. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
9. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
10. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
11. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
12. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
18. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
20. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
21. Lacking in light.
24. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
27. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
28. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
30. A humorous anecdote or remark.
31. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
33. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
34. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. A ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation.
40. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
41. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers.
42. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
47. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
49. A Loloish language.
50. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
51. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
52. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
54. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
55. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
57. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
58. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
62. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
63. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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