Crossword Puzzle Number 5340 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The sound made by a gentle blow.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
10. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.
13. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
14. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
15. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
16. The basic unit of money in Macao.
18. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
20. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
21. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
26. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
27. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
31. Extremely pleasing.
36. A slight amount or degree of difference.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Common Indian weaverbird.
41. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
42. An informal term for a father.
44. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
47. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
49. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
54. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
62. An associate degree in applied science.
63. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
64. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
65. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
66. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
67. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
68. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.

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1. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
2. Squash bugs.
3. A genus of Procyonidae.
4. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
5. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
6. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
7. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
8. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
9. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
10. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
11. Rounded like an egg.
12. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
17. In bed.
19. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
22. The residue that remains when something is burned.
24. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
25. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
28. A state in the western United States.
29. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
30. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
32. (informal) Of the highest quality.
33. The cry made by sheep.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. A quantity of no importance.
38. (informal) Exceptionally good.
43. A large fleet.
46. A rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
51. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
52. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
53. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
55. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
60. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
61. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.

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