Crossword Puzzle Number 1023 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
4. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
7. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
13. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
14. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
15. A light touch or stroke.
16. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
21. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
24. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
26. Type genus of Ochnaceae.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
30. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
40. Of or like a cecum.
44. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
45. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
46. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
47. The cry made by sheep.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
4. A boy or man.
5. Jordan's port.
6. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
7. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
8. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
9. (Greek mythology) The Muse of history.
10. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
18. United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859).
20. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
22. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
29. Informal terms for a mother.
31. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
32. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
33. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
37. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.

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