Crossword Puzzle Number 8073 (Small Grid)

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1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. A port city in southwestern Iran.
10. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
13. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
14. A splendid assemblage (especially of famous people).
15. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
16. An associate degree in applied science.
17. Make less active or intense.
19. (informal) Exceptionally good.
21. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. The visual property of something that shines with reflected light.
33. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
35. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. Lower in esteem.
41. A sultanate in northwestern Borneo.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
45. The act of rising upward into the air.
49. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
52. A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
54. Type genus of the Amiidae.
57. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
58. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
60. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
61. The fatty flesh of eel.
62. Obvious and dull.
63. (used with singular count nouns) Colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'.

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
3. Flat tableland with steep edges.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
6. Having winglike extensions.
7. The specified day of the month.
8. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
9. A Mid-Atlantic state.
10. The content of cognition.
11. A unit of weight used in some Moslem countries near the Mediterranean.
12. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. The act of scanning.
20. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
22. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
24. An associate degree in nursing.
25. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
27. Showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair.
28. A very light brown.
29. One thousand periods per second.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
32. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
34. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
37. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
38. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
39. Having winglike extensions.
40. A member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines.
41. The content of cognition.
42. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
43. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
46. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
47. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
48. (of weather) Wet by periods of rain.
50. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
51. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
55. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
56. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
59. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.

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