Crossword Puzzle Number 2079 (Small Grid)

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1. A United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces.
4. A cloth having a crisscross design.
9. Imprudently incurring risk.
13. (Babylonian) The sky god.
14. The deep vascular inner layer of the skin.
15. Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
16. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
18. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
19. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
20. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
22. Before noon.
24. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
27. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
29. Of or involving the rectum.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. A Mid-Atlantic state.
41. One-thousandth of an equivalent.
43. Regional and archaic.
44. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
46. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
47. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
50. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
52. A small wooded hollow.
55. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
56. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
57. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
58. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
61. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
62. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
63. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
64. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.

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1. 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.
2. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
3. Thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game.
4. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
5. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
6. A large fleet.
7. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
8. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
9. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
10. The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded.
11. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
12. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
17. A sudden short attack.
21. Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
23. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
25. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
26. An edilbe seaweed with a mild flavor.
28. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
30. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
31. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
38. The presence of potassium in the circulating blood.
39. Transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data.
40. 1 species.
41. An antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain.
42. The French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec.
45. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
48. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes.
49. Small and light boat.
51. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
52. A toilet in England.
53. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
54. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
59. 1/10 gram.
60. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
61. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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