Crossword Puzzle Number 2854 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. A genus of Ploceidae.
9. Used of physical coldness.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
15. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
16. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
18. Republic in northern Europe.
19. A wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
22. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
23. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
27. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
29. The longest river of Asia.
33. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
34. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.
37. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
38. Music composed for dancing the pavane.
40. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
43. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
45. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
47. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
49. A member of the Slavic people living in Croatia.
51. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
55. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
58. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
60. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
65. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
66. Jordan's port.
67. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
68. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
3. Any elementary particle that interacts strongly with other particles.
4. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
5. A unit of pressure.
6. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
7. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
8. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
9. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
10. Toward the mouth or oral region.
11. Of a quality, as in.
12. An informal term for a father.
17. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
20. A person with unusual powers of foresight.
24. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
26. The act of scanning.
28. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
30. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
31. A quantity of no importance.
32. Take by theft.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
39. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir and avenger of Balder.
41. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
42. Divulge information or secrets.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
46. Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.
48. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
50. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
52. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
53. Using speech rather than writing.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
56. The basic unit of money in Albania.
57. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
58. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
59. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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