Crossword Puzzle Number 5409 (Small Grid)

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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
10. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
13. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
14. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
17. A workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold.
18. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
19. Jordan's port.
21. United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822).
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. An informal term for a father.
26. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
28. Chocolate cookie with white cream filling.
30. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
33. 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.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
37. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
38. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
40. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
42. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
45. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
52. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
55. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
58. Similar to the color of jade.
59. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
61. The bivalent radical UO2 which forms salts with acids.
63. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
64. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
66. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
67. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
68. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
69. Marked by skill in deception.

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1. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
2. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
3. An atom having a valence of one.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A sweet filling made of prunes or apricots.
7. Made with sleeves or sleeves especially as specified.
8. Affected manners intended to impress others.
9. United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for her research on the structure of the atom (1906-1972).
10. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
11. Common Indian weaverbird.
12. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. Noisy talk.
25. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
27. Seed of a pea plant.
29. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
31. Enlarged prostate.
32. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
39. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian).
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A port city in southwestern Iran.
44. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
46. (informal) Roused to anger.
47. A Hindu prince or king in India.
48. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
50. Hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
51. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
53. An episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll.
54. Time during which some action is awaited.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. An ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center.
58. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
60. A vehicle carrying many passengers.
62. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
65. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.

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