Crossword Puzzle Number 6981 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. 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.
10. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
13. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
14. (anatomy) Opposite to or away from the mouth.
15. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
16. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
17. Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
18. A flexible container with a single opening.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. The branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals.
26. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
27. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
41. A rapid bustling commotion.
42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
45. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
47. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
49. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
50. Rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
55. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
60. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
61. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
62. A master's degree in business.
63. Used of a single unit or thing.
64. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
65. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.

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1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
5. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
6. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
7. A large fleet.
8. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
9. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.
10. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.
11. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
12. (Norse mythology) Wife of Loki.
20. A man who is a stupid fool.
22. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
23. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
24. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
32. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
33. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
34. An informal term for a father.
35. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
36. A pass between mountain peaks.
38. Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior.
40. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
41. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
43. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
44. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
46. The act of using.
48. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
51. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
52. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. South African term for `boss'.
56. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
57. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
58. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
59. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.

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