Crossword Puzzle Number 5865 (Small Grid)

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1. Syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus.
4. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
10. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. Regional and archaic.
15. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
18. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
20. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
22. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
24. A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences.
25. 10 grams.
26. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
35. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
37. God of wealth and love.
39. Not only so, but.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
43. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
44. An analytic or interpretive literary composition.
47. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
49. In bed.
52. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
54. The presence of potassium in the circulating blood.
58. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
66. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
67. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
68. A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.
69. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.

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1. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
4. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
5. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
6. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
7. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. German states who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992).
9. A public promotion of some product or service.
10. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
11. Being one more than seven.
12. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Jordan's port.
27. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. Before noon.
30. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
31. Advanced in years.
32. Denuded of leaves.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
38. Ground snakes.
40. God of dawn and light.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
46. Noisy talk.
48. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
50. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
51. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
53. Offering fun and gaiety.
54. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
55. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
56. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
57. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
59. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
60. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
64. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
65. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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