Crossword Puzzle Number 706 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. Ruffed grouse.
10. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. The place where something begins, where it springs into being.
15. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.
16. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
18. A vigorous blow.
19. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
20. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs.
21. French novelist.
23. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
24. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
28. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
33. A defamatory or abusive word or phrase.
36. Fallow deer.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. Speaking a Slavic language.
42. A device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces.
43. A state in southeastern United States.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
50. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
52. The branch of mechanics concerned with forces in equilibrium.
55. Any plant of the genus Erica.
59. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
60. Informal terms for a meal.
63. A light touch or stroke.
64. A kind of person.
65. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
67. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
68. Seed of a pea plant.
69. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
70. How long something has existed.

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1. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
2. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
3. A small cake leavened with yeast.
4. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
5. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
6. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
9. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
10. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
11. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
12. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
17. The superior of an abbey of monks.
22. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
25. An honorary arts degree.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
30. A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail.
31. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
32. Type genus of the Ranidae.
34. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
35. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
39. A boy or man.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. Painted beauty and red admiral.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
48. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
51. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
53. An account describing incidents or events.
54. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
56. The content of cognition.
57. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
58. A French abbot.
61. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
62. The bill in a restaurant.
66. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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