Crossword Puzzle Number 559 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
4. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares.
9. Stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut.
13. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
14. Flesh of a castrated male chicken.
15. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
16. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
17. Urge or force (a person) to an action.
18. Characteristic of false pride.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. A state in southeastern United States.
24. Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness.
25. English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
42. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
45. Not only so, but.
47. A public promotion of some product or service.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
51. A Russian river.
54. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
58. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
60. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
61. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
62. A branch of the Tai languages.
63. A city in east central Texas.
64. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
65. Tropical starchy tuberous root.

DOWN

1. Obvious and dull.
2. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
3. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
4. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
5. An embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.
6. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
7. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
8. Make larger.
9. Large mackerel with long pointed snout.
10. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
11. The formation of frost or ice on a surface.
12. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
30. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. Measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation.
33. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
34. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
36. The cry made by sheep.
37. A stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top.
38. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
39. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
40. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
43. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
44. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
46. Lower in esteem.
50. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
52. Food for domestic livestock.
53. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
55. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
56. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
57. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
59. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.

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