Crossword Puzzle Number 2240 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A city in the European part of Russia.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. A young woman making her debut into society.
17. Water frozen in the solid state.
18. Informal terms for a mother.
19. A state in northwestern North America.
21. A genus of Platalea.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
25. A local computer network for communication between computers.
26. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
30. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
31. The last (12th) month of the year.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. An expression of greeting.
34. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. A circular segment of a curve.
46. Before noon.
47. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
50. The sixth month of the civil year.

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1. Leafless East Indian vine.
2. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
3. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
6. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia.
9. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
10. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
15. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
35. In bed.
36. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
37. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
38. Common Indian weaverbird.
39. A human female who does housework.
41. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
42. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
43. A slight amount or degree of difference.
44. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
45. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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