Crossword Puzzle Number 1503 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
4. The sixth month of the civil year.
8. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
11. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. How long something has existed.
14. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
15. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
16. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
18. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. A native of ancient Troy.
21. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
24. The cry made by sheep.
25. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
28. 10 grams.
31. Jordan's port.
32. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
35. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
38. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
40. A light touch or stroke.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
47. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
49. Young sheep.
51. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
52. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
53. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
55. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
57. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.

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1. Avatar of Vishnu.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
4. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
5. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
6. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
7. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
8. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
9. Largest known toad species.
10. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
17. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
19. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
27. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
29. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. An informal term for a father.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
44. A city in northern India.
45. South African term for `boss'.
46. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
48. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
50. A master's degree in business.
51. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
54. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
55. An informal term for a father.

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