Crossword Puzzle Number 7717 (Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
5. Small South American spiny tree with dark crimson and scarlet flowers solitary or clustered.
10. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
13. The British system of withholding tax.
14. Decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior.
15. How long something has existed.
16. A mournful poem.
18. A country north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea.
20. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
22. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
23. Being nine more than ninety.
24. A rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots.
27. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going".
29. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
30. Make a plat of.
34. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
36. Informal terms for a mother.
38. Only the bowfins.
40. Before noon.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
42. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
45. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
47. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
53. Great coolness and composure under strain.
55. A public promotion of some product or service.
56. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
57. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
58. A cruel and brutal fellow.
60. Bound or secured closely.
61. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
62. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
63. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

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1. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. A white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers.
4. (law) A gift of personal property by will.
5. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
6. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
7. Water frozen in the solid state.
8. 3rd largest island in the world.
9. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
10. Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548).
11. American novelist (1909-1955).
12. Dearly loved.
17. A soft silvery metallic element.
19. The capital of Nationalist China.
21. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
25. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
26. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
28. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
31. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
32. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
33. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
35. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
37. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
39. The ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria.
40. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
43. Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-gray bark of North America and Europe and Asia.
44. An early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940).
46. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
48. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
49. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. A roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top.
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. An informal term for a father.
54. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
59. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).

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