Crossword Puzzle Number 1296 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The act of using.
4. A republic in central Africa.
10. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
13. 100 puls equal 1 afghani.
14. Ending in a sharp point.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
17. From 40 million to 58 million years ago.
18. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
19. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
21. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
22. The capital of Nationalist China.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
28. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
29. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955).
39. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
44. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
47. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
48. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
50. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
54. (used of persons or the military) Characterized by having or bearing arms.
57. A small piece of cloth.
61. Make amends for.
62. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
63. A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee.
65. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
66. The cry made by sheep.
67. Small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions.
68. Someone who is morally reprehensible.

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1. Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.
2. Perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop.
3. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
4. The capital of Croatia.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
8. To say or state again.
9. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
10. A self-governing colony of Denmark on the Faroe Islands.
11. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
12. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
20. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
24. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
26. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
30. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
31. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
33. A tight-fitting headdress.
34. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
38. Greek mythology.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
46. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. An informal term for a father.
53. Highly excited.
55. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
56. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
58. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
59. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
60. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
64. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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