Crossword Puzzle Number 976 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A person's brother or sister.
4. A resident of Kansas.
10. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
13. The sign language used in the United States.
14. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
16. (of time) Having passed or slipped by.
18. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
24. A tight-fitting headdress.
26. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
28. Type genus of the Cyatheaceae.
32. A port city in southwestern Iran.
36. The fatty flesh of eel.
37. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
42. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
44. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
45. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
46. A genus of Ploceidae.
48. An informal term for a father.
50. Seed of a pea plant.
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
59. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.
63. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
64. A genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family.
67. The compass point that is one point south of due west.
68. The basic unit of money in Albania.
69. A severe or trying experience.
70. Remaining after all deductions.

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1. A branch of the Tai languages.
2. A small island.
3. Divulge information or secrets.
4. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. A quantity of no importance.
7. A white trivalent metallic element.
8. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
9. Tag the base runner to get him out.
10. 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.
11. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
12. A shop selling delicatessen (as salads or cooked meats).
17. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
19. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
22. Squash bugs.
25. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. An affirmative.
30. Of or being the lowest female voice.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
33. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
34. In bed.
35. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
40. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
41. A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services.
43. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
47. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
49. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A support that steadies or strengthens something else.
52. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
54. Toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric.
56. The first light of day.
57. A French abbot.
58. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
60. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
61. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
65. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
66. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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