Crossword Puzzle Number 6986 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
5. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
10. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
13. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
14. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
19. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
20. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
22. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
24. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
30. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
34. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
36. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
38. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
39. The highest level or degree attainable.
40. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
43. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
45. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
52. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
56. The second larges of the four main islands of Japan.
58. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
59. The force of workers available.
60. (Irish) Goddess.
61. By bad luck.

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1. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
2. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
3. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
4. New World chameleons.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
7. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
8. A primeval personification of air and breath.
9. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
10. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
11. A small constellation near the South Pole between Tucana and Ara.
12. A fraudulent business scheme.
17. 1/1000 gram.
18. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
21. In bed.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
26. The cry made by sheep.
27. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
28. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
29. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
31. Towards the side away from the wind.
32. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
33. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
44. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
46. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
47. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
48. Chief port of Yemen.
49. The food served and eaten at one time.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
53. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
54. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
55. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
57. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.

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