Crossword Puzzle Number 2285 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
5. The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
10. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
13. A person who possesses great material wealth.
14. Having winglike extensions.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
17. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
19. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
30. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
33. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
34. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
36. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
37. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
38. The doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls.
42. Type genus of the Ranidae.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
46. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
47. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
49. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
51. A genus of Platalea.
54. The eleventh month of the civil year.
56. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
59. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
60. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
62. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
63. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
64. Malevolent aspect of Devi.
66. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
67. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
68. A large fleet.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
3. Report or maintain.
4. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
5. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
8. (Sumerian) Sun god.
9. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
10. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
18. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
20. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries.
26. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
28. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
29. A cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump.
31. The compass point that is one point north of northwest.
32. A cooperative unit.
35. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
39. A crime syndicate in the United States.
40. Covered with paving material.
41. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
45. Leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree.
48. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
50. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
51. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. North African gerbils.
53. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
55. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
58. God of love and erotic desire.
61. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
65. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.

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