Crossword Puzzle Number 1461 (Small Grid)

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1. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
4. The mother-in-law of Ruth whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
9. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
13. Be obliged to pay or repay.
14. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
15. A mythical Greek hero.
16. Lace again.
18. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
19. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
21. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
25. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
29. An informal term for a father.
32. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
35. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
36. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
37. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
40. A dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin.
44. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
47. A rack for temporarily holding coats and hats.
51. Of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle).
55. A squeeze with the fingers.
56. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
58. Type genus of the Bramidae.
59. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
63. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
64. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound.
65. Jordan's port.
66. God of love and erotic desire.

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1. Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears.
2. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
3. A sails-shaped constellation in the southern hemisphere near Carina.
4. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
5. A drama set to music.
6. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
7. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
8. A volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples.
9. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
10. Slightly open.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
17. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
24. Material used to daub walls.
26. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
27. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. American novelist (1909-1955).
31. Fallow deer.
33. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
39. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
41. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
42. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
43. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
44. A vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles.
45. Jordan's port.
46. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
48. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence.
49. A bluish shade of green.
50. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
51. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
52. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
53. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
54. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
57. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
58. A state in midwestern United States.
61. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
62. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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