Crossword Puzzle Number 6995 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
5. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
10. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
13. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
14. Well matched.
15. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
16. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
18. Muslim name for God.
20. A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
24. Of or relating to or involving an area.
25. An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance.
26. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.
29. Before noon.
31. Goddess of fate.
33. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. A housing for a radar antenna.
43. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
45. Squash bugs.
48. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
49. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
52. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
55. A decree that prohibits something.
56. A branch of the Tai languages.
57. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
59. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
62. A master's degree in business.
63. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
64. English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812).
66. Tag the base runner to get him out.
67. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
68. Used of locations.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. British writer of short stories (1870-1916).
2. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
3. Tear or be torn violently.
4. The act of refusing a request.
5. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
6. Jordan's port.
7. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
8. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
9. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
10. A corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages.
11. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
12. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
17. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. (informal) Exceptionally good.
28. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
35. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
36. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
41. The trait of lacking restraint or control.
42. By bad luck.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
49. A genus of Lamnidae.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Jordan's port.
53. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
54. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
58. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
60. Black tropical American cuckoo.
61. The last (12th) month of the year.
65. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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