Crossword Puzzle Number 2446 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
9. A young woman.
13. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
14. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
15. The capital of Western Samoa.
16. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
17. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
18. Any of various floor-like platforms built into a vessel.
19. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
21. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
24. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
29. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
32. An audiotape recording of sound.
33. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
36. A state in northwestern North America.
37. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
39. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
41. Informal terms for a mother.
42. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
43. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
45. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
46. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
48. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input.
53. A city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta.
56. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
59. Step on it.
60. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
61. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
63. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
64. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
65. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
66. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.

DOWN

1. The act of scanning.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
4. Not easy.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian').
7. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
10. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
11. Possessing material wealth.
12. A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land.
20. (informal) Of the highest quality.
22. A genus of Ploceidae.
23. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
26. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
27. Of or relating to near the ear.
28. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
30. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
31. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
34. Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances.
35. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
38. Little known Kamarupan languages.
40. God of death.
44. Cut or impressed into a surface.
47. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
49. Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68).
50. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. Type genus of the Majidae.
53. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
54. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
55. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).
57. A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch.
58. Extremely pleasing.
62. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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