Crossword Puzzle Number 5420 (Small Grid)

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1. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
4. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
9. Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
15. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
16. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
17. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
18. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
19. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
21. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
23. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
24. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
25. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
32. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
36. A castrated tomcat.
37. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
39. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
43. The longest division of geological time.
45. A Hindu prince or king in India.
46. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
49. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
51. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
55. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
57. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
60. The cry made by sheep.
61. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
62. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
64. A container.
65. Informal terms for a mother.
66. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
67. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.

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1. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. With no effort to conceal.
4. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
5. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
6. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
9. Appeal or request earnestly.
10. A deep prolonged loud noise.
11. A very light brown.
12. A band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain.
20. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
30. The act of scanning.
31. Disabled in the feet or legs.
33. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
38. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
40. Type genus of the Nepidae.
41. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
42. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
44. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
47. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
48. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
50. Herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves.
52. A French abbot.
53. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
54. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
56. A light touch or stroke.
58. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
63. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.

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