Crossword Puzzle Number 1863 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
10. A federally chartered savings bank.
13. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
14. A Basque or Spanish game played in a court with a ball and a wickerwork racket.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. The residue that remains when something is burned.
17. United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925).
18. Annual grass of Europe and North Africa.
19. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
21. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
22. A genus of Bothidae.
24. American novelist (1909-1955).
26. An affirmative.
27. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
30. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not contain steroids.
34. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
35. The month following January and preceding March.
37. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
38. A slight amount or degree of difference.
39. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
40. A state in northwestern North America.
42. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of.
43. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
45. Capital of Swaziland.
47. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. Relating to or containing diazonium.
54. Greek mythology.
58. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
59. An Asian temple.
63. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
64. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
65. Exultantly proud and joyful.
66. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
67. An associate degree in applied science.
68. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
69. Used of a single unit or thing.

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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. The unit of frequency.
5. Personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians.
6. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
7. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
8. An allergic reaction that becomes apparent in a sensitized person only minutes after contact.
9. Norwegian explorer of the Arctic and director of the League of Nations relief program for refugees of World War I (1861-1930).
10. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
11. Singing jazz.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
20. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
23. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
25. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
28. By bad luck.
29. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
31. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
32. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
33. Have supper.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
44. One thousand periods per second.
46. The cry made by sheep.
50. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
51. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
52. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
53. A wine bottle made of leather.
55. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
56. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
57. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
60. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
61. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
62. A young woman making her debut into society.
63. Half the width of an em.

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