Crossword Puzzle Number 576 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
4. An instrument of punishment formerly used in China for petty criminals.
10. How long something has existed.
13. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
14. A slight wind (usually refreshing).
15. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
19. A fraudulent business scheme.
21. That is to say.
22. A port city in southwestern Iran.
24. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
27. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
30. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
34. An informal term for a father.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
39. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
42. Any high mountain.
47. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
50. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
53. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
54. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
58. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
59. Cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth.
62. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
63. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
64. Common house and field crickets.
66. Having leadership guidance.
67. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

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1. Cause to be embarrassed.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
4. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
5. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
6. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
7. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
8. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
9. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
11. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
12. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
18. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
20. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. A telephone connection.
33. A specific instance of feeling hopeful.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
40. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
41. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.
45. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
46. Type genus of the Anatidae.
48. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
49. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
51. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
52. Shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg.
55. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
56. In bed.
57. A quantity of no importance.
60. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
61. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
65. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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