Crossword Puzzle Number 3315 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
4. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
10. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. Resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. Of or relating to or near the tarsus of the foot.
18. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
20. In operation or operational.
21. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
22. An oral poliovirus vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. One of two official languages of Norway.
34. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
35. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
36. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
38. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
42. Expose to fresh air, as of old clothing.
44. Wale at the top of the side of boat.
46. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
48. An informal term for a father.
49. (prefix) Outside or outer.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
54. Dyed with henna.
57. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A member of the Uniat Church.
65. A small cake leavened with yeast.
66. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
67. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
69. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
70. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
71. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
72. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.

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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
2. Gather, as of as crops.
3. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
4. A master's degree in fine arts.
5. (prefix) Indicating difference or variation.
6. An artificial language for international use that rejects rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas.
7. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
8. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
9. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
10. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
11. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
12. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
17. A fraudulent business scheme.
19. Hawthorn of southern United States bearing juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.
23. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
31. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
32. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
33. Towards the side away from the wind.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
40. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
41. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
43. Chief port of Yemen.
45. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
47. A belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic.
50. Any taillike structure.
51. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
53. A light touch or stroke.
55. Very dark black.
56. A quantity of no importance.
58. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
59. A slender double-reed instrument.
60. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
63. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
64. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
68. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.

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