Crossword Puzzle Number 3218 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
4. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
10. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
13. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
14. Nocturnal wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat.
15. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
16. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
18. A major god.
19. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
20. A mercury-vapor lamp used in artificial sunray treatments.
22. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
24. Sudanese sorghums having white seeds.
26. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
27. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. A light touch or stroke.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
40. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
41. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
42. Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
45. A change for the better.
48. God of death.
49. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
50. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
52. (prefix) Half or partial.
54. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
58. A small piece of cloth.
60. A distinct feature or element in a problem.
63. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
64. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
65. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
67. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
68. The cry made by sheep.
69. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
70. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.

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1. A loud resonant repeating noise.
2. Not clearly understood or expressed.
3. Growing old.
4. Large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers.
5. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
6. A fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs.
7. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
8. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
9. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
11. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
12. Thin and fit.
17. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
21. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
23. The sixth month of the civil year.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A decree that prohibits something.
30. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
32. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
33. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
35. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
36. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
37. Provide with clothes or put clothes on.
39. South African term for `boss'.
43. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
44. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
46. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
55. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
56. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
57. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
59. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
61. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
62. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
66. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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