Crossword Puzzle Number 2500 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An unforeseen obstacle.
4. A member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia.
10. A master's degree in library science.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. A loose skirt consisting of brightly colored fabric wrapped around the body.
15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
17. Lacking even the rudiments of courage.
18. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
19. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols.
21. Of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric Aegean civilization.
23. The act of escaping physically.
24. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
25. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
26. A member of a Turkic people of Chinese Turkestan and neighboring areas (formerly of Mongolia and eastern Turkestan).
30. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
34. A Finnish steam bath.
35. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
37. A doctor's degree in theology.
38. The academic world.
41. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
43. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
44. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
45. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
49. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
51. Flemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and to have pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441).
53. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
54. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
56. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
59. Anything that serves as an enticement.
60. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
61. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
63. The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.
64. The cry made by sheep.
65. Relating to or containing acetic acid.
66. The compass point midway between northeast and east.

DOWN

1. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
2. A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea.
3. Of or relating to or containing barium.
4. Someone who escapes.
5. The part of a missile or torpedo that carries the explosive charge.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. The month following October and preceding December.
8. Make uniform.
9. Produced under conditions involving intense heat.
10. Produced by a manufacturing process.
11. A Russian river.
12. The act of scanning.
20. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
22. Sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system.
27. The part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus.
28. A transuranic element.
29. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
32. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
33. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. The unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container.
37. The month following October and preceding December.
39. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
40. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. Lower in esteem.
47. An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War.
48. (Greek mythology) A river in Hades.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
51. Being nine more than ninety.
52. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
53. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
55. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
57. Vietnamese New Year.
58. Being one more than two.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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