Crossword Puzzle Number 617 (Small Grid)

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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
13. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
14. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
18. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
19. Away from the right path or direction.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
22. A variety of leaf bug.
25. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
27. An enclosed space.
29. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. A decree that prohibits something.
35. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
36. A state in New England.
40. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
41. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
42. Improved or corrected by critical editing.
44. A beckoning gesture.
45. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
48. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
53. Muslim name for God.
55. Noisy talk.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. God of war and sky.
59. Medium-sized penguins occurring in large colonies on the Adelie coast of Antarctica.
61. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
62. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
63. Of a leaf shape.
64. The capital and largest city of Japan.

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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Type genus of the Anatidae.
3. A man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores.
4. An ancient city in northwestern Iran.
5. Characteristic of a baby.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A state in northwestern North America.
9. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
11. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
12. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
26. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
28. An argument opposed to a proposal.
30. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
31. A whetstone made of fine gritstone.
32. In bed.
34. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
37. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
38. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
39. The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required.
43. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
46. English essayist (1775-1834).
47. A white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum.
49. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
50. Moderate or restrain.
51. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
52. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
54. An accidental happening.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
60. A Mid-Atlantic state.

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