Crossword Puzzle Number 4978 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
4. Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars.
10. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
13. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
14. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
15. Noisy talk.
16. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
17. Male cat.
18. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
19. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
21. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.
22. A city of central China.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
28. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
30. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
41. Regional and archaic.
44. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
48. The cry made by sheep.
49. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
50. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
52. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
55. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
59. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
65. An associate degree in applied science.
66. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
67. The capital of Turkey.
68. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
69. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
70. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
71. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.

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1. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
2. Leather with a napped surface.
3. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
4. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
5. A public entertainment or exhibition.
6. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone).
7. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. Of an instrument of certain death.
10. Too numerous to be counted.
11. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
12. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
20. A quantity of no importance.
23. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A deep bow.
29. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
31. A city in northern India.
32. An informal term for a father.
34. How long something has existed.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
42. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A light touch or stroke.
47. A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. Type genus of the Ranidae.
56. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
57. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
58. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
60. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
61. An enclosed space.
62. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
63. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
64. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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