Crossword Puzzle Number 1343 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
8. (usually followed by `to' or `for') On the point of or strongly disposed.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
17. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
18. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
35. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
39. An associate degree in applied science.
42. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
43. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access information of general interest.
44. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
48. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.

DOWN

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
3. The bill in a restaurant.
4. Before noon.
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
7. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
8. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
9. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
10. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
20. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
21. A gun that propels a projectile by compressed air.
22. An informal term for a father.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. A light touch or stroke.
29. The act of escaping physically.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. The sacred city of Lamaism.
33. Affect with wonder.
34. Formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India.
36. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
40. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
41. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.

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