Crossword Puzzle Number 85 (Small Grid)

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1. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
4. A fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance.
10. An enclosed space.
13. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
14. A conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere.
15. An accountant certified by the state.
16. Hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany.
18. The mother of Jesus.
19. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
20. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
23. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
27. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
29. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
31. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
36. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
38. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. Foul with waste matter.
50. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
53. A port city in southwestern Iran.
57. Jordan's port.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
62. Obvious and dull.
65. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
66. An edict of the Russian tsar.
67. (informal) Very tired.

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1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. A member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
3. South Asian deer with three-tined antlers.
4. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
5. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. A large fleet.
7. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
8. A cruel wicked and inhuman person.
9. A negative.
10. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
17. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
21. A flexible container with a single opening.
22. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
25. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
28. In bed.
30. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
32. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
33. Largest known toad species.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. The eleventh month of the civil year.
43. Divulge information or secrets.
45. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. A natural talent.
49. A telegram sent abroad.
51. A Loloish language.
52. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
54. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
55. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
58. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
59. An associate degree in applied science.
63. A state in northwestern North America.
64. A Russian river.

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