Crossword Puzzle Number 5183 (Small Grid)

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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.
9. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
13. A human limb.
14. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
17. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
18. Long and thin and often limp.
19. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
24. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
28. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
32. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
33. The sixth month of the civil year.
37. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
39. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
40. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
41. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
42. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
44. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
46. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
47. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
51. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
57. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
61. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
62. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
63. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
65. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
66. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
67. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
68. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

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1. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. A city in northern India.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
6. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
7. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
8. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
9. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
10. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
11. A Russian river.
12. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
20. Fallow deer.
21. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
25. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
29. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
30. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
31. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
36. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
38. (botany) Of or relating to or functioning as a cambium.
43. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
45. Take in, also metaphorically.
46. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
48. Jordan's port.
49. An associate degree in nursing.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
54. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
55. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
56. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
58. The sound made by a cow or bull.
59. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
60. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
64. Before noon.

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