Crossword Puzzle Number 5001 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.
5. God of blame and mockery.
10. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
13. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
14. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
15. The month following March and preceding May.
16. A desert in southern Israel.
18. The probability of a specified outcome.
19. The habitation of wild animals.
20. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
22. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
24. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
25. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
27. A technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing).
30. A quantity of no importance.
33. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
35. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
36. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
37. British writer of novels who was born in India.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. Go beyond.
46. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
56. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
59. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
60. The force of workers available.
61. New Zealand timber tree resembling the cypress.
63. (informal) Roused to anger.
64. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
65. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
4. A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth.
5. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
6. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
7. Evergreen tree of Pacific North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries.
8. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
9. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
10. A genus of Pyralidae.
11. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
12. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
17. Characterized by variety.
21. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
26. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
28. The twelfth month of the civil year.
29. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
31. American novelist (1909-1955).
32. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
34. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
38. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
39. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
40. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
41. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church.
42. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
45. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
47. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
50. In bed.
51. Something that hinders as if with bonds v 1.
52. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
53. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
55. An informal term for a father.
57. Being one more than one.
58. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
62. An associate degree in nursing.

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