Crossword Puzzle Number 1290 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
5. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
8. The products of human creativity.
11. One who works hard at boring tasks.
12. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
15. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
16. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
17. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. 100 fen equal 1 yuan.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. Young sheep.
29. God of death.
32. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
34. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
38. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
39. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
41. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
44. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
45. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
46. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
7. Black tropical American cuckoo.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
10. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
18. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
19. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
30. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
31. Farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle).
33. The cry made by sheep.
35. Common Indian weaverbird.
36. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Divulge information or secrets.
40. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
42. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
43. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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