Crossword Puzzle Number 6505 (Small Grid)

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1. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
5. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
10. An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa.
13. A salt deposit that animals regularly lick.
14. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
15. The month following March and preceding May.
16. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
18. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
19. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks.
24. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
26. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
31. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
39. The capital of Western Samoa.
40. African antelope with ridged curved horns.
41. Having a texture resembling rubber.
44. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
45. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
46. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
50. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
52. (South African) An ear of corn.
54. Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells.
58. Wood duck and mandarin duck.
59. Found along western Atlantic coast.
62. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
63. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
64. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
65. On or toward the lee.
66. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
67. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. The basic unit of money on Malta.
3. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
4. Jordan's port.
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
6. The site of an archeological exploration.
7. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
8. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
9. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
10. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
11. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit.
12. (informal) Exceptionally good.
17. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
21. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. The cry made by sheep.
28. The highest level or degree attainable.
29. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
32. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
33. Engage or hire for work.
34. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
36. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
38. A small nail.
42. Not equal in amount.
43. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
47. Treated with wax.
48. Wild ox.
49. An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
51. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
52. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.
53. A genus of Mustelidae.
55. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
56. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
57. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
60. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
61. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.

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