Crossword Puzzle Number 2258 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. An Indian unit of length having different values in different localities.
8. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
14. The bill in a restaurant.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. Jordan's port.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. A Russian river.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
39. 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.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
44. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
47. The cry made by sheep.
48. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
49. In bed.
50. Top part of an apron.
51. Used of a single unit or thing.
52. A quantity of no importance.
53. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.

DOWN

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. An accountant certified by the state.
5. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
8. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
9. The content of cognition.
10. In the near future.
18. English inventor who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877).
20. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
21. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. A state in northwestern North America.
25. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
27. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A port city in southwestern Iran.
36. Very dark black.
37. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. A French abbot.
41. Anything that serves as an enticement.
42. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
45. Having leadership guidance.
46. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

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