Crossword Puzzle Number 6386 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A professional cook.
5. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
9. Of or relating to near the ear.
13. Any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers.
14. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
15. French novelist and critic.
16. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
17. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
18. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
19. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
33. A Mid-Atlantic state.
36. A linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.
37. Athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training.
40. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
43. Someone who cuts flat glass to size.
49. English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869).
50. Of or like a cecum.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. A virtually extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
56. (Roman mythology) A princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage.
57. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
58. In the area or vicinity.
60. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
61. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
62. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
63. Up to the present time.

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1. A small cut of meat including part of a rib.
2. A specific instance of feeling hopeful.
3. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
4. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
5. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
6. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
7. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
8. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
9. A chronic disease of the nose characterized by a foul-smelling nasal discharge and atrophy of nasal structures.
10. A yellow quartz.
11. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
12. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
20. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
21. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
23. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
24. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
26. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
27. The residue that remains when something is burned.
30. Affect with wonder.
31. American novelist (1909-1955).
32. The eighth month of the civil year.
34. A state in northwestern North America.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. Treated with wax.
39. Excessive desire to eat.
40. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals.
42. The cry made by sheep.
44. A mountain peak in the Saint Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high).
45. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
46. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
47. A small unit serving as the nucleus of a larger political movement.
48. At or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship.
53. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
54. A cruel and brutal fellow.
55. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
59. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.

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