Crossword Puzzle Number 2031 (Small Grid)

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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
10. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. Having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute.
15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
16. Squash bugs.
18. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
19. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
20. Humorously vulgar.
21. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
23. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
26. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
29. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. A master's degree in business.
36. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
38. In bed.
40. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
41. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
49. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
53. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
55. Fallow deer.
58. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
59. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
62. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
63. The present time or age.
64. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.

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1. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
2. A Loloish language.
3. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
4. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
5. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
6. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
7. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
8. As the agent of or on someone's part.
9. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
10. A magic power or magic spell.
11. A fraudulent business scheme.
12. A small cake leavened with yeast.
17. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
22. A radioactive transuranic element.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. A kiln for drying hops.
28. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
30. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
31. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
32. Inquire about.
35. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
37. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
39. Excessive desire to eat.
40. The Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian people.
42. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
44. French novelist.
47. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
48. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
50. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. Not easy.
54. An informal term for a father.
56. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
57. The cry made by sheep.
58. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
60. A New England state.

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