Crossword Puzzle Number 564 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. How long something has existed.
4. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
9. A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects).
13. An informal term for a father.
14. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
15. A Loloish language.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. At full speed.
18. English essayist (1775-1834).
19. Fallow deer.
21. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
22. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
27. The occurrence of a change for the worse.
31. Having few if any teeth.
35. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
36. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
37. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
38. Common Indian weaverbird.
39. A master's degree in business.
41. To fix or set securely or deeply.
43. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
46. A telegram sent abroad.
49. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
56. A large fleet.
59. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
60. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.
63. (informal) Roused to anger.
64. God of the Underworld.
65. Hanging cloth used as a blind.
66. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.

DOWN

1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
3. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
4. Fiddler crabs.
5. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
6. Cry plaintively.
7. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
8. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
9. An inhabitant of ancient Thebes.
10. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
11. Type genus of the family Unionidae.
12. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
23. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
28. The sixth month of the civil year.
29. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
30. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
32. Having a gray or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring.
33. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
34. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
42. A city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta.
44. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
47. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
48. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
50. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
51. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
52. With no effort to conceal.
53. A three-tone Chadic language.
54. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. An informal term for a father.
57. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
58. A United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies.
61. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
62. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.

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