Crossword Puzzle Number 1004 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. The residue that remains when something is burned.
12. Using speech rather than writing.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. The basic unit of money in Iran.
16. By bad luck.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
21. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
26. A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
37. A genus of Ploceidae.
40. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
44. (informal) Of the highest quality.
45. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. A city in northern India.
49. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
50. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
51. Characteristic of false pride.
52. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
54. A French abbot.

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1. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.
2. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
3. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
4. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. Young of domestic cattle.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. The act of scanning.
20. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
23. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A light touch or stroke.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
31. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
34. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
36. God of wealth and love.
37. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
41. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
42. Baby bed with high sides.
43. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
46. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
48. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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