Crossword Puzzle Number 3848 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A police officer who investigates crimes.
4. Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
10. The unit of frequency.
13. Canadian hockey player (born 1948).
14. The removal of covering.
15. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
16. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
17. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. A city in western California on San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.
26. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. In an exposed manner.
32. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
36. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
37. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
38. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. (informal) Exceptionally good.
41. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
47. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
48. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
51. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
53. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
58. A small piece of cloth.
60. Prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels.
63. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
64. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
65. Type genus of the Ariidae.
66. A thrusting blow with a knife.
67. The cry made by sheep.
68. Found along western Atlantic coast.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. The body excluding the head and neck and limbs.
2. Any plant of the genus Erica.
3. A harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog).
4. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
5. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
6. Without regard to specific details or exceptions.
7. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
8. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
9. 1/1000 gram.
10. A seat for one person, with a support for the back.
11. A genus of Ploceidae.
12. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
22. An unforeseen obstacle.
24. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
30. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
31. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
33. A form of address for a man.
34. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
39. Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
40. 1/1000 gram.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
49. A genus of Laridae.
50. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. A state in northwestern North America.
54. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
55. A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together.
56. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
57. A French abbot.
59. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
61. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
62. (Irish) The sea personified.

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