Crossword Puzzle Number 120 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Top part of an apron.
4. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
10. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
13. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
14. Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
17. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
19. A family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the midwest by Caddo peoples.
21. Toward the mouth or oral region.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
26. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
28. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
31. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
35. A city in northern India.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
40. Pertaining to or near the sun.
41. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria.
42. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
44. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
46. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
47. The residue that remains when something is burned.
48. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
57. Of or relating to or derived from or containing boron.
60. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
61. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
62. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
65. The cry made by sheep.
66. A light touch or stroke.
67. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. A human limb.

DOWN

1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
3. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
4. A genus of European owls.
5. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
6. A festival featuring African-American culture.
7. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
8. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
9. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
10. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
11. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
12. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
18. Of or relating to or near the coccyx.
20. Slow to learn or understand.
24. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
25. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
27. God of death.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
33. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
34. Informal terms for a mother.
36. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
37. (informal) Of the highest quality.
41. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
43. An informal term for a father.
45. Of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base.
50. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
53. The content of cognition.
54. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
55. A human female who does housework.
56. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
58. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
59. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
63. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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