Crossword Puzzle Number 1286 (Small Grid)

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1. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
5. A small adhesive disk of paste.
10. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
13. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
14. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
16. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
17. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
19. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.
20. Small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia Tibet and Mongolia.
24. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
25. Unknown god.
26. Held in slavery.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
33. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
36. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
39. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
40. A proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages).
41. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
42. A state in southwestern Germany famous for its beer.
45. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
47. Lower in esteem.
48. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
51. A river in southeastern France.
54. A criminal who illegally sets fire to property.
57. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
58. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
59. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
61. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
63. Having been read.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
65. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.

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1. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
2. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
3. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
4. A fraudulent business scheme.
5. An ambitious and aspiring young person.
6. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
7. A deliberately false or improbable account.
8. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
9. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
10. The sixth month of the civil year.
11. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
12. At a specific prior time.
18. Jordan's port.
21. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
23. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
27. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
30. The principal dish of a meal.
31. God of fire.
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
37. Someone who has red hair.
38. The brightest star in Cygnus.
43. Characteristic of false pride.
44. The regulation of weights and measures of articles offered for sale.
46. A doctor's degree in musical arts.
49. Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten.
50. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
52. Avatar of Vishnu.
53. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
55. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
56. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
60. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
62. A public promotion of some product or service.

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