Crossword Puzzle Number 2455 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. Informal terms for a meal.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. The residue that remains when something is burned.
15. An island northwest of Wales.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
22. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
24. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
29. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. A doctor's degree in education.
36. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
38. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. (informal) Of the highest quality.
42. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
46. An enclosed space.
48. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
50. The lower house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
52. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
53. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
54. An informal term for a father.
55. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
56. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
57. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
58. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.

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1. Not only so, but.
2. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
5. A final climactic stage.
6. Being one more than nine.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A human limb.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. The basic unit of money in Spain.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
28. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
33. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
37. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.
41. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
42. Half the width of an em.
43. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
44. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
45. Divulge information or secrets.
47. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
49. A conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures.
50. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

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