Crossword Puzzle Number 1442 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
4. Family based on male descent.
8. An internationally recognized distress signal in radio code.
11. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
12. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
13. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
21. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
23. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
38. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
45. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
46. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
48. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
49. Either extremity of something that has length.
50. In bed.
51. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.

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1. An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. Of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions.
5. A cgs unit of work or energy.
6. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
9. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
10. A city of central China.
15. By bad luck.
20. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
34. Someone whose business is advertising.
36. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
39. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
41. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
43. (informal) Of the highest quality.
44. An informal term for a father.
47. An informal term for a father.

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