Crossword Puzzle Number 6029 (Small Grid)

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1. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
5. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
9. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
13. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
14. Any competition.
15. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
16. (of pages) Worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning.
17. The cry made by sheep.
19. An associate degree in nursing.
20. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
21. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.
24. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
25. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
27. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
30. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
38. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
39. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
48. A master's degree in library science.
49. Avoid (one's assigned duties).
54. Genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers.
56. Any location known for vice and corruption.
60. Trade name for an oral contraceptive containing mestranol and a progestin compound.
62. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
63. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
66. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
67. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
68. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
70. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

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1. Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979).
2. An autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century.
3. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
4. A large fleet.
5. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
6. An informal term for a father.
7. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
8. A young woman making her debut into society.
9. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
12. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
18. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. Minor or subordinate.
28. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
29. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
31. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
32. A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance).
33. Type genus of the Anatidae.
35. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Of or pertaining to hearing or the ear.
41. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
42. Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio.
45. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
47. A Loloish language.
50. An itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins.
51. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. A Russian river.
55. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
57. The face of a timepiece.
58. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
59. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
61. The bill in a restaurant.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
65. Informal terms for a mother.

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