Crossword Puzzle Number 1009 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust.
5. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
10. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
13. A primeval personification of air and breath.
14. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
17. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
18. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
19. The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
21. Freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk.
23. As hot as if in an oven.
26. 16 ounces.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. A master's degree in fine arts.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
33. An honorary arts degree.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
40. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
41. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
43. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
46. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
47. Any plant of the genus Erica.
51. An African amulet.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
59. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
60. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
61. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
62. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
63. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
64. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
65. A fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia.

DOWN

1. Powdery starch from certain sago palms.
2. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
3. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
4. Squash bugs.
5. A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
8. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
9. (zoology) Relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida.
10. A city of central China.
11. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
12. A genus of Ploceidae.
20. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
22. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
24. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
25. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
29. Make secure by lashing.
32. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
34. Lean end of the neck.
35. 30 to 300 gigahertz.
36. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
37. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
39. Large family of important mostly marine food fishes.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission.
44. French painter and exponent of Fauvism (1880-1954).
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
49. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
50. Someone whose business is advertising.
52. Avatar of Vishnu.
53. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
54. Costing 10 dollars.
57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
58. A boy or man.

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