Crossword Puzzle Number 6855 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
4. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc.
10. A person active in party politics.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. A former British gold coin worth 21 chillings.
15. Being one more than sixty.
16. (anatomy) Any encircling or beltlike structure.
18. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
19. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
20. The capital of Croatia.
23. Statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (born in 1924).
25. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
28. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
29. Belonging to some prior time.
32. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.
33. A master's degree in business.
34. Tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes.
36. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
39. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
40. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. A Russian river.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. Plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits.
50. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
53. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
54. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
55. Fallow deer.
58. A vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line.
61. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
62. Jordan's port.
65. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
66. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
67. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
68. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
2. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
3. A vigorous blow.
4. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
5. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. Used of a single unit or thing.
8. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
9. A deep bow.
10. Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants.
11. Any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical.
12. Of a pale purple color.
17. Type genus of the Ardeidae.
21. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
22. God of wealth and love.
24. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
26. A festival featuring African-American culture.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
30. A period of time spent sleeping.
31. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
35. (Greek mythology) God of love.
37. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
38. Tag the base runner to get him out.
41. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. A small nail.
47. An artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language.
48. Of or relating to punishment.
49. Of a yellowish brown color similar to olive drab n.
51. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
52. Indigo bush.
56. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
57. A shaft on which a wheel rotates.
59. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
60. An enclosed space.
61. Before noon.
63. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
64. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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