Crossword Puzzle Number 3317 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
9. An informal term for a father.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. The organic process of bearing flowers.
15. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
16. The expression on a person's face.
18. A small island.
19. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
20. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
22. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
25. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
27. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
28. Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids.
32. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
36. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes.
37. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
42. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
45. Beads threaded on a string.
48. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
50. An edict of the Russian tsar.
54. How long something has existed.
55. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
58. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
59. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
60. Australasian kingfishers.
62. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
63. Used of a single unit or thing.
64. A port city in southwestern Iran.
65. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).

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1. A low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water.
2. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
3. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
4. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
5. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
6. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
7. A pass between mountain peaks.
8. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
9. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
12. A primeval personification of air and breath.
17. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835).
26. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
29. An Egyptian descended from the ancient Egyptians.
30. The basic unit of money in China.
31. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
33. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
38. The academic world.
39. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
40. A flat tortilla with various fillings piled on it.
41. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
43. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
44. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
46. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
47. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
49. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
50. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
51. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
52. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
53. Very dark black.
56. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
57. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. In operation or operational.

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