Crossword Puzzle Number 1506 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
11. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
12. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
13. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
14. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
25. Extremely pleasing.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
32. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
34. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
35. An informal term for a father.
37. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. Made tough by habitual exposure.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Fallow deer.
48. Fiddler crabs.
50. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
51. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.
52. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
53. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.

DOWN

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. In bed.
3. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. A light touch or stroke.
5. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. Heal or recover.
9. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
10. Offering fun and gaiety.
15. Jordan's port.
16. A flexible container with a single opening.
20. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. A very light brown.
26. A state in northwestern North America.
27. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. Put down by force or intimidation.
30. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
33. Obvious and dull.
34. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
36. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
38. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
39. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
41. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.
42. An elaborate song for solo voice.
44. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
45. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.

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