Crossword Puzzle Number 5490 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
4. Small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia Tibet and Mongolia.
9. A person who makes use of a thing.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. become turned or set on end.
15. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC).
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.
18. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
21. An informal term for a father.
23. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
24. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
26. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
29. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
33. Lively and spirited.
36. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
38. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
44. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
45. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
46. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
48. A licensed medical practitioner.
50. An authoritative person who divines the future.
53. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
57. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
60. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
61. Black tropical American cuckoo.
62. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
64. The fatty flesh of eel.
65. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
66. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
67. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

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1. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
2. By bad luck.
3. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
4. Sometimes placed in family Hyacinthaceae.
5. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.
6. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
7. Untie the lashing of.
8. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
9. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
10. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.
11. (prefix) Within.
12. (used of especially horses) Having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray.
20. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
22. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
28. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
30. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
31. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.
32. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
34. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
35. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
37. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
40. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
44. A heavy precious metallic element.
47. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
49. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
51. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
52. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
54. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
55. Advanced in years.
56. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
58. A person active in party politics.
59. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
63. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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