Crossword Puzzle Number 1747 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The United Nations agency concerned with the international collection of meteorological data.
4. Hardy evergreen dioecious shrubs and small trees from Japan.
10. A master's degree in business.
13. An accidental happening.
14. Characteristic of or relating to winter.
15. 10 grams.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
19. Similar to McIntosh.
21. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
23. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
25. Austrian composer (1860-1911).
28. Widely known and esteemed.
32. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
33. A soft silvery metallic element.
35. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
36. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
38. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
41. The month following July and preceding September.
42. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
44. Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. An informal term for a father.
49. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
52. A town in north central Oklahoma.
54. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
58. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
60. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. A ribbon used as a decoration.
64. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
65. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
66. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
67. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.

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1. Hit hard.
2. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. Advance evidence for.
5. Of or relating to the function or production or secretion of urine.
6. Of inferior or mixed breed.
7. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
8. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
9. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
11. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. At right angles to the length of a ship or airplane.
20. Look at with amorous intentions.
22. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
24. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
26. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
27. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
30. Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
31. Temporary living quarters.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
37. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
39. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
40. The great hall in ancient Persian palaces.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
43. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
45. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
47. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.
50. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
51. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
53. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
55. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. Gather, as of as crops.
57. A quantity of no importance.
59. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
63. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.

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