Crossword Puzzle Number 977 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Attack someone physically or emotionally.
10. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914).
15. An artifact designed to be played with.
16. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels.
17. A natural cavity or hollow in a bone.
18. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
19. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
21. The cry made by sheep.
22. A formal expression of praise.
24. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
26. A mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
29. Singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs).
32. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
42. Make amends for.
45. A fraudulent business scheme.
48. Characteristic of false pride.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
56. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
59. An elaborate song for solo voice.
60. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
63. The compass point that is one point west of due south.
64. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
65. Any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO-.
66. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.

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1. Bar temporarily.
2. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
3. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
6. Stalk of a moss capsule.
7. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
8. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
9. The basic unit of money in Honduras.
10. (Greek mythology) One of the three Gorgons.
11. 100 toea equal 1 kina.
12. A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation).
20. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
27. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
30. God of love and erotic desire.
31. Very dark black.
33. Being ten more than eighty.
34. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
35. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
39. A member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona.
40. The 16th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
43. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
44. A woman's large folded hooped hood.
46. (in Indian English) The number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros.
47. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
52. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
53. Long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
54. A French abbot.
55. A ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars).
57. Top part of an apron.
58. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
59. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
61. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
62. An expression of greeting.

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