Crossword Puzzle Number 1242 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
5. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
9. Occurring widely (as to many people).
13. An informal term for a father.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
15. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
16. Rounded like an egg.
17. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. Avatar of Vishnu.
19. Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome.
21. Not out.
23. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. Being nine more than ninety.
26. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
27. Loss of the ability to swallow.
30. The airforce of Great Britain.
32. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
34. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
37. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
40. Saw used with one hand for cutting metal.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
44. A law passed by US Congress to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment.
45. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
48. City in Sudan.
50. Put into a different code.
52. A deep bow.
56. (neuroscience) Of or relating to or resembling an axon.
58. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
59. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
60. Growing in two parts or in pairs.
63. God of war and sky.
64. A doctor's degree in education.
65. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
66. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.

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1. Any property detected by the olfactory system.
2. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
3. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
7. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
8. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
9. 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.
10. The sixth month of the civil year.
11. East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok.
12. Personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task.
20. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
22. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
24. Being one more than one hundred.
28. Seed of a pea plant.
29. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
31. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield.
33. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
35. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
36. A group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria.
38. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
39. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
41. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
43. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
47. (archaic) Of persons.
49. Filled with a great quantity.
51. English essayist (1775-1834).
53. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.
54. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
55. A heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges.
57. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
61. A state in southeastern United States.
62. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.

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