Crossword Puzzle Number 2695 (Small Grid)

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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
9. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
15. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
16. The content of cognition.
18. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
19. A cooperative unit.
20. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
22. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
27. An associate degree in nursing.
29. A flexible container with a single opening.
30. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
33. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
38. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
39. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
40. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. The cry made by sheep.
45. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
47. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
49. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
51. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
54. 40th President of the United States (1911- ).
56. Having a woven pattern.
59. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
62. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
63. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
64. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
66. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
67. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
68. A member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. Marked by casual disrespect.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. Sour or bitter in taste.
4. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
5. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
6. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
7. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
8. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
9. A genus of echinoderms of the family Antedonidae.
10. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
11. A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane).
12. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
17. Jordan's port.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
28. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
32. Divulge information or secrets.
34. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
36. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
37. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
41. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
42. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
43. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
46. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
48. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
50. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
52. An oil port in southern Iraq.
53. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
54. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
55. (prefix) Outside or outer.
56. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
57. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
58. God of love and erotic desire.
60. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
61. A transuranic element.
65. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.

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