Crossword Puzzle Number 2097 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An honorary degree in science.
4. (commerce) The period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange).
10. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
13. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
14. An Anatolian language.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. A long and hard-hit fly ball.
19. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
21. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
25. A light touch or stroke.
27. (Hinduism) Term of respect for a Brahmin sage.
30. Exultantly proud and joyful.
34. Not only so, but.
35. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. (informal) Of the highest quality.
38. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
39. Battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943).
41. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
44. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
50. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
59. An accountant certified by the state.
62. The month following February and preceding April.
63. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
64. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
65. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
66. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
67. Go into retirement.
68. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.

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1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
3. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
4. Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.
5. A deep bow.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
8. A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.
9. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
10. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
11. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
12. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
18. A small cake leavened with yeast.
20. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
24. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
26. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
28. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
29. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
31. The income arising from land or other property.
32. Armor plate that protects the chest.
33. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
40. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
42. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
47. An associate degree in nursing.
48. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
49. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
51. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
53. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. Type genus of the Amiidae.
57. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
58. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
61. Black tropical American cuckoo.

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