Crossword Puzzle Number 972 (Small Grid)

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1. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.
4. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
10. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
13. An informal debt instrument.
14. Wool of the alpaca.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
18. A spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion).
20. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
23. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
24. Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'.
25. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
27. Japanese painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1760-1849).
31. Perceive sound.
34. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
35. 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.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
47. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
51. An informal term for a father.
54. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
55. A French abbot.
57. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
58. Make an etching of.
60. (computer science) The smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot).
61. God of the Underworld.
62. A domain in which something is dominant.
63. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.

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1. A female sorcerer or magician.
2. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
3. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
4. A battle in which the Danes defeated the East Saxons in 991.
5. A song that was formerly popular.
6. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle.
10. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
11. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
12. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
17. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
19. Relating to the Urdu language.
21. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
22. A rapid bustling commotion.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. Water frozen in the solid state.
32. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
33. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
37. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. Russian country house.
43. With rapid movements.
44. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
45. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
46. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
52. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
53. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
56. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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