Crossword Puzzle Number 1769 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. Not reflecting light.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. The face of a timepiece.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
17. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
18. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
38. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
41. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
42. A diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it).
44. A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. A quantity of no importance.
47. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
48. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.

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1. Serving as or forming a base.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
4. A doctor's degree in religion.
5. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
6. A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana).
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
15. An informal term for a father.
20. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
21. Used of a single unit or thing.
22. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. An enclosed space.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
32. A central point or locus of an infection in an organism.
33. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
35. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
36. Type genus of the Nepidae.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. An accountant certified by the state.
40. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
43. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.

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