Crossword Puzzle Number 3751 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Small genus of variable annual Eurasian vines.
9. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
14. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
15. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
16. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
17. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
18. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
19. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
21. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
23. A genetic disorder of metabolism.
24. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. 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.
27. A means of serving.
30. Type genus of the Anatidae.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
36. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
37. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
38. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
39. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
43. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
44. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
46. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
49. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
50. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
57. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
60. Framework for holding objects.
61. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
63. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
64. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
65. Jordan's port.
66. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
5. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
6. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
7. A resident of Utah.
8. A long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy.
9. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
10. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
11. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
12. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
20. Baby bed with high sides.
22. Serving as or forming a base.
25. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
28. Morally reprehensible.
29. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
32. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.
41. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
47. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
48. A protective structure resembling a scale.
51. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
52. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. A Loloish language.
58. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
59. A light touch or stroke.
62. Unknown god.

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