Crossword Puzzle Number 7852 (Small Grid)

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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. Australasian kingfishers.
10. A human limb.
13. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
14. A large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria.
15. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. A pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
19. Hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo.
21. Characteristic of or relating to winter.
23. A fraudulent business scheme.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
28. Common Indian weaverbird.
34. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
36. (informal) Of the highest quality.
38. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal.
39. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
40. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
41. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
42. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
45. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
48. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
52. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
55. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.
56. A branch of the Tai languages.
57. A numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number.
59. In bed.
62. A master's degree in business.
63. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
64. A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles.
66. Tag the base runner to get him out.
67. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
68. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. An informal term for a father.
3. Singing jazz.
4. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
5. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
6. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
7. The capital and largest city of Japan.
8. Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
9. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
11. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
12. The food served and eaten at one time.
20. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
22. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka.
27. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. Not only so, but.
31. A flexible container with a single opening.
32. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
33. Two items of the same kind.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
41. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
43. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
44. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
45. The residue that remains when something is burned.
46. A state in southeastern United States.
47. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
49. A genus of Lamnidae.
50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. Jordan's port.
53. An onerous or difficult concern.
54. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
58. Being one more than ninety.
60. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
61. The last (12th) month of the year.
65. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
66. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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