Crossword Puzzle Number 2000 (Small Grid)

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1. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
4. (Jewish folklore) A demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior.
10. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
13. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
14. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
15. Take in solid food.
16. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
18. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
19. Make amends for.
20. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
22. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
24. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
25. The female or generative principle.
28. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
29. Type genus of the Anatidae.
33. Roman statesman and philosopher who was and advisor to Nero (circa 4 BC - 65 AD).
36. A city is east central Sweden north northwest of Stockholm.
37. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
42. A light touch or stroke.
43. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
51. Entangle or catch in in or as if in a mesh.
57. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
59. Advanced in years.
61. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
63. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
64. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
65. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
66. An informal term for a father.
67. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
3. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
4. Trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions.
5. Being nine more than forty.
6. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
7. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
8. Goddess of fate.
9. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
10. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
11. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
12. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls.
17. Sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws widely distributed in the northern hemisphere v 1.
21. State in northeastern India.
23. A sudden and violent collapse.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
27. An island of Hawaii northwest of Oahu.
30. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
31. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
32. An enclosed space.
34. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
35. Tag the base runner to get him out.
39. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
40. Extremely pleasing.
44. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
45. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
50. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
52. A quantity of no importance.
53. Bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning.
54. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
55. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
56. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
60. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
62. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

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