Crossword Puzzle Number 1577 (Small Grid)

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1. The handle of a weapon or tool.
5. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
9. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
13. English essayist (1775-1834).
14. Armor plate that protects the chest.
15. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
17. The front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.
18. With no effort to conceal.
19. The basic unit of money in Macao.
22. A city in east central Texas.
24. Animal food for browsing or grazing.
27. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
31. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
34. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
36. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
38. 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.
42. A light touch or stroke.
43. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
44. Lac purified by heating and filtering.
48. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
52. Tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.
53. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
56. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
57. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
58. In a foreign country.
60. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
61. Having leadership guidance.
62. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
63. A young woman making her debut into society.

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1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
4. National capital of Kiribati.
5. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Possessing material wealth.
8. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
9. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
11. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
12. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
20. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
21. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
23. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
25. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
26. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
29. Toward the mouth or oral region.
30. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
35. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.
37. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.
38. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
39. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
45. Engage or hire for work.
46. A town in north central Oklahoma.
47. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
49. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
50. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
51. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
54. A state of southwestern India.
55. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
59. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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