Crossword Puzzle Number 2312 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
4. The cry made by sheep.
7. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
11. The habitation of wild animals.
12. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
13. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
14. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
15. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
16. The month following February and preceding April.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
23. An informal term for a father.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. A light touch or stroke.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
33. Moderate or restrain.
35. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
42. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
45. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
49. 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.
50. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
51. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
52. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
53. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
54. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
2. Not only so, but.
3. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
4. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
5. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
6. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
7. Informal terms for a mother.
8. A large fleet.
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
18. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
20. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. A flexible container with a single opening.
32. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
34. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
40. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
43. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
44. A quantity of no importance.
45. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
48. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.

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