Crossword Puzzle Number 1712 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
13. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
14. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
15. A person who is of equal standing with another in a group.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
18. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
19. By bad luck.
21. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
22. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
24. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
25. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
27. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
28. (classical architecture) A molding for a cornice.
32. Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
35. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
36. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
45. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
48. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
49. Baby bed with high sides.
51. A motley assortment of things.
55. Any unwholesome or desperate condition.
59. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
63. A slender double-reed instrument.
64. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
66. A Loloish language.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. Lower in esteem.
69. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.

DOWN

1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
5. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
6. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
7. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
10. A cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity.
11. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
12. The template for protein synthesis.
20. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
23. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
26. A bachelor's degree in theology.
29. Not only so, but.
30. God of death.
31. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
33. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
34. Very dark black.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
40. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
41. A contorted facial expression.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
50. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
51. Before noon.
52. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
53. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
54. Marked by lack of intellectual depth.
55. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
56. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
57. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
58. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
61. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
62. A tube in which a body fluid circulates.
65. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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