Crossword Puzzle Number 6983 (Small Grid)

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1. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
4. A city in Veneto.
10. The bill in a restaurant.
13. Black tropical American cuckoo.
14. Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. (psychophysics) The difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected.
17. Of inferior or mixed breed.
18. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. A Scottish word.
21. In addition.
22. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
23. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning.
25. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
27. An associate degree in applied science.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. A desert in southern Israel.
32. Of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants.
35. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
36. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units.
40. Goddess of love and fecundity.
42. Alexandrian astronomer who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until Copernicus (2nd century AD).
44. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
46. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
47. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
50. Small New Zealand broadleaf evergreen tree often cultivated in warm regions as an ornamental.
53. A state in midwestern United States.
55. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
58. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
59. A fraudulent business scheme.
64. Being three more than fifty.
65. Wood of a sumac.
67. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
68. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
69. Visionary British poet (1757-1827).
70. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Declare invalid.
3. Move unobtrusively or furtively.
4. The foot of a human being.
5. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
6. Dearly loved.
7. A musical work that has been created.
8. A town of Denmark in north central Jutland.
9. A public promotion of some product or service.
10. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
11. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
12. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
20. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
24. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India.
26. Felt hat with a creased crown.
30. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.
31. One of the first artificial language constructed for use as an auxiliary international language.
33. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
34. Meat from a calf.
37. Domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap.
38. The square of a body of any size of type.
39. A Mid-Atlantic state.
41. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
43. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
48. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia.
49. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
50. 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.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. Jordan's port.
54. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
55. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
57. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
60. A resource.
61. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
62. (informal) Of the highest quality.
63. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
66. A state in northwestern North America.

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