Crossword Puzzle Number 1653 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Very fertile.
5. Any distinct time period in a sequence of events.
10. An audiotape recording of sound.
13. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
14. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. (military) Signal to turn the lights out.
17. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
18. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
19. Jordan's port.
21. The cry made by sheep.
23. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
26. Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride.
29. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people.
38. Small genus of erect balsam-scented herbs.
41. French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963).
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. Divulge information or secrets.
46. The wife of a sheik.
50. Type genus of the Majidae.
53. A light touch or stroke.
55. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
56. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
58. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
61. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
62. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
63. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
65. The month following February and preceding April.
66. A bachelor's degree in theology.
67. A republic on the Isthmus of Panama.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
69. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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1. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
2. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
3. Type genus of the Nepidae.
4. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
5. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
6. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
7. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
8. Type genus of the Giraffidae.
9. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A city in northern India.
12. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
20. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
25. The state of owing money.
27. The twelfth month of the civil year.
28. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
30. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
31. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
35. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
39. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. A port city in southwestern Iran.
47. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
57. Of southern Europe.
59. A spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back.
60. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
64. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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