Crossword Puzzle Number 2091 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
5. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
7. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.
11. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
12. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
13. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
14. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
16. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
17. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
20. At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
24. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
32. A small piece of cloth.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. A master's degree in business.
48. An associate degree in applied science.
49. (informal) Exceptionally good.
50. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A quantity of no importance.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
5. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
6. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
7. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
8. An informal term for a father.
9. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
10. A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
18. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
19. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
21. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
22. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. The cry made by sheep.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
36. Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure.
37. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
41. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
42. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. The rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state.

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