Crossword Puzzle Number 2344 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
10. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. A port city in southwestern Iran.
15. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
16. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
18. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
19. The residue that remains when something is burned.
20. On or toward the lee.
23. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
25. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
27. A collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity).
30. To or from every one of two or more (considered individually).
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
37. Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding.
38. Collect or gather.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. (computer science) Memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed.
44. A woman of refinement.
45. Spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies.
47. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
49. Quality of being active or spirited or vigorous.
50. (informal) Roused to anger.
53. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
54. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
58. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
60. A port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production.
63. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
64. Type genus of the Ranidae.
65. In bed.
66. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
67. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
69. Not widely known.

DOWN

1. A quantity of no importance.
2. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
3. Denuded of leaves.
4. An enclosed space.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. 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.
9. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
11. A framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame.
12. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
17. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality.
21. Fallow deer.
22. Type genus of the Amiidae.
24. A person who investigates and reports or edits news stories.
26. Loss of the ability to swallow.
28. Informal terms for a mother.
29. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
31. The basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999).
32. A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid.
33. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
36. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
39. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
42. An island in Antigua and Barbuda.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds.
47. A small piece of cloth.
48. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
49. A state in the eastern United States.
51. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
52. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
55. Common Indian weaverbird.
56. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
57. Serving as or forming a base.
59. A decree that prohibits something.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. God of the earth.
63. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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