Crossword Puzzle Number 2479 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
11. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
14. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. Black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas.
22. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
28. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
32. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
33. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
34. 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.
35. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
36. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Chief port of Yemen.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. (Irish) The sea personified.
51. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
52. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
53. A doctor's degree in education.
54. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
55. A young woman making her debut into society.
56. Before noon.

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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. The square of a body of any size of type.
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
6. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. A very light brown.
10. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
16. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
18. Fallow deer.
20. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
23. A genus of Ploceidae.
25. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
27. A Mid-Atlantic state.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
31. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
37. In bed.
38. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
39. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
42. Set down according to a plan.
43. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
44. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
47. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.

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