Crossword Puzzle Number 2159 (Small Grid)

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1. 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.
4. (usually in the plural) Pants for casual wear.
10. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. National capital of Kiribati.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. Squash bugs.
18. A very troublesome child.
19. An enclosed space.
20. (heraldry) Applied to a fish depicted horizontally.
22. Concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement.
24. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
26. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
29. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
32. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
33. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. A sudden and violent collapse.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
52. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
56. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
57. A port in southwestern Scotland.
59. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
60. In or of the month preceding the present one.
61. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
62. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
2. Type genus of the Ranidae.
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
4. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
5. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
6. 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).
7. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
8. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
9. A cotton fabric with a satiny finish.
10. Any plant of the genus Reseda.
11. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
12. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.
17. Fried quickly in a little fat.
21. English translator and Protestant martyr.
23. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
25. A Loloish language.
27. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
28. Jordan's port.
30. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. American novelist (1909-1955).
38. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
39. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. American dramatist (1928- ).
44. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. A particular environment or walk of life.
48. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
50. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
51. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
53. The products of human creativity.
54. A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid.
55. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
58. Informal terms for a mother.

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