Crossword Puzzle Number 5142 (Small Grid)

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1. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure.
5. Long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America.
10. The residue that remains when something is burned.
13. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
14. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
17. Largest crested screamer.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
21. Fly a plane.
23. A fraudulent business scheme.
25. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
26. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
29. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
31. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
35. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. Being ten more than eighty.
42. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
43. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
44. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
51. Being or occurring in fact or actuality.
53. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
57. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
61. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
62. A resource.
63. Having a slightly undulating margin.
65. The longest division of geological time.
66. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
67. A large fleet.
68. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

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1. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.
2. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
3. Lacking excess flesh.
4. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
5. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
6. Type genus of the Anhimidae.
7. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
8. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
9. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Singing jazz.
12. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. The content of cognition.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Extremely pleasing.
28. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
30. Any of various units of capacity.
32. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
33. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
34. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
36. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.
37. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
45. Type genus of the Anatidae.
47. Suggestive of the supernatural.
48. English monk and scholar (672-735).
50. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
52. Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.
54. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
55. Very dark black.
56. Type genus of the Ranidae.
58. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
59. Rate of revolution of a motor.
60. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
64. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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