Crossword Puzzle Number 1088 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
10. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
17. Antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia.
18. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
19. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. Uncastrated adult male sheep.
22. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
24. Reconnaissance (by shortening).
26. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.
30. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
33. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
34. A flexible container with a single opening.
36. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. Black tropical American cuckoo.
38. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
40. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
41. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
42. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
45. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
46. Informal terms for a mother.
48. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
51. Narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow.
54. By bad luck.
57. Decrease in size, extent, or range.
59. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
62. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
63. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
64. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
65. Rounded like an egg.
66. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
67. Tall hat.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. Used of a single unit or thing.
5. A jaunty rhythm in music.
6. Be careful or certain to do something.
7. Having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses).
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
10. Offering fun and gaiety.
11. Speaking a Slavic language.
12. Avatar of Vishnu.
20. The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum.
23. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A local computer network for communication between computers.
28. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
29. The cry made by sheep.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
35. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds.
39. Any of various units of capacity.
41. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
42. Speaking a Slavic language.
43. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
47. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
48. A state in New England.
49. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
50. 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.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Any plant of the genus Inula.
55. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
56. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
58. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
60. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
61. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.

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