Crossword Puzzle Number 5888 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
9. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
13. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
14. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
15. Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere.
16. In the Roman calendar.
17. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
18. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
19. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.
24. Slightly open.
26. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
27. Build up to a level by depositing sediment.
30. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
34. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
36. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
38. A large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies).
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
44. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
46. An informal term for a father.
50. A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
53. (British) Inferior (espcially of a country's leadership).
56. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
58. An informal term for a father.
59. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
60. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. A branch of the Tai languages.
64. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
65. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
66. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
2. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
3. (informal) Of the highest quality.
4. An East Indian sailor.
5. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. Not final or absolute.
8. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
9. The father of your father or mother.
10. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
11. The basic unit of money in Iran.
12. Of the color of black ink.
21. A genus of Platalea.
23. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
25. Antiquity that as survived from the distant past.
28. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
29. Any of various small biting flies.
31. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
32. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
33. Type genus of the Anatidae.
35. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
37. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
39. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
42. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
43. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
47. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
48. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
49. Squash bugs.
50. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. Norse chieftan who became the first duke of Normandy (860-931).
53. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
54. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
55. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
57. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
61. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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