Crossword Puzzle Number 1412 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. An edible tuber native to South America.
5. Tag the base runner to get him out.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. A period of time spent sleeping.
14. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
27. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
28. The sixth month of the civil year.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. 10 grams.
32. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. Avatar of Vishnu.
41. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
43. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
46. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
47. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
49. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
50. A flexible container with a single opening.
51. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
52. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.

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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
3. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
4. A usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair.
5. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
6. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
7. The cry made by sheep.
8. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. An associate degree in applied science.
19. Conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
22. Fallow deer.
23. A bachelor's degree in religion.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
31. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
33. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
34. The ending of a series or sequence.
35. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
42. A humorous anecdote or remark.
44. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

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