Crossword Puzzle Number 1159 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A socially awkward or tactless act.
5. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
10. A periodic paperback publication.
13. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
14. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
15. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
18. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
20. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
25. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
26. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
28. An informal term for a father.
31. Re-establish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.
34. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
36. A tight-fitting headdress.
38. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
39. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
44. A small cake leavened with yeast.
45. (Greek mythology) The father of Odysseus.
46. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
51. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
52. English essayist (1775-1834).
55. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
58. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
59. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
62. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
63. The residue that remains when something is burned.
64. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
65. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.

DOWN

1. A secret store of valuables or money.
2. A brief description given for purposes of identification.
3. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
4. Any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system.
5. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
6. A resource.
7. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
8. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
9. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
10. A master's degree in fine arts.
11. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
12. Offering fun and gaiety.
17. Small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.
19. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
21. Conceived of or imagined or hoped for.
23. American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for physics twice (1908-1991).
27. Any high mountain.
29. An associate degree in nursing.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. 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.
33. A large number or amount.
35. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
37. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
40. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
41. Perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.
42. Soft creamy white cheese.
43. An ache localized in the middle or inner ear.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. Sour or bitter in taste.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
50. A vigorous blow.
51. Remaining after all deductions.
53. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
54. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
56. A light touch or stroke.
57. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
60. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
61. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.

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