Crossword Puzzle Number 6148 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. How long something has existed.
4. An analgesic for mild pain.
10. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
13. (informal) Roused to anger.
14. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
15. Devoid of warmth and cordiality.
16. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
18. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
19. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
20. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
24. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
26. A light touch or stroke.
27. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
30. One millionth of a gram.
32. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
36. Provide with a coating, as of chocolates.
37. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. The cry made by sheep.
42. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
43. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
46. Brake consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle.
48. One who works hard at boring tasks.
50. God of the earth.
51. Small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines.
54. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
58. Jordan's port.
59. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
63. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
64. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
67. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
68. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
69. A port city in southwestern Iran.
70. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.

DOWN

1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
4. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
7. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
8. A small piece of cloth.
9. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
10. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
17. Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches.
23. In bed.
25. 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.
28. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
29. (informal) Exceptionally good.
31. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
33. (Scottish) A long dagger with a straight blade.
34. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
35. Type genus of the Anatidae.
38. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. 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.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
49. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
50. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
52. A Loloish language.
53. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
60. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A decree that prohibits something.
66. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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