Crossword Puzzle Number 5281 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
4. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
10. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. Being six more than fifty.
17. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
19. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
21. Wear away.
23. Of or relating to or involving an area.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
29. A boy or man.
30. An informal term for a father.
34. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
38. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
39. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
41. Slightly open.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
45. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
50. Narrow platform.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
55. A person forced to flee from home or country.
57. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
60. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
62. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
66. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
67. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
68. (statistics) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.
69. A thrusting blow with a knife.
70. An associate degree in applied science.
71. A genus of Ploceidae.
72. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
73. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.

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1. A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean.
2. The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth.
3. The state of being covered with unclean things.
4. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
5. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
10. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
11. English monk and scholar (672-735).
12. Toward the inside of the cheek.
18. A large fleet.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
24. A Russian river.
25. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
31. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
32. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
33. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
35. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
36. 10 grams.
37. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
40. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
42. Capital and largest city of Indonesia.
43. English monk and scholar (672-735).
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
47. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
51. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
52. The sacred city of Lamaism.
53. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. A state in New England.
56. Ceremonial elegance and splendor.
58. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
59. A French abbot.
61. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
63. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
64. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
65. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

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