Crossword Puzzle Number 1714 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
5. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
8. Be obliged to pay or repay.
11. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
12. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
13. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
14. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
15. Black tropical American cuckoo.
16. A doctor's degree in education.
17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
28. Speaking a Slavic language.
32. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
36. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
38. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
41. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
44. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
45. The basic unit of money in Bulgaria.
46. The head of a branch of an organized crime syndicate.
47. The residue that remains when something is burned.
48. Towards the side away from the wind.
49. Engage or hire for work.
50. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.

DOWN

1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
4. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
7. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
8. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
9. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
10. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
19. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
21. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
23. Type genus of the Gavidae.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. (pathology) Tending to become more severe or wider in scope.
30. A Japanese cheer of enthusiasm or triumph.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. A hidden drawback.
34. Lower in esteem.
35. Boiled or baked buckwheat.
37. On or toward the lee.
39. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
42. The month following March and preceding May.
43. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.

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