Crossword Puzzle Number 2824 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
12. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
15. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
16. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
17. Informal terms for a mother.
20. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
26. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. The capital of Mali.
35. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
39. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
41. A flexible container with a single opening.
44. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
45. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
47. A humorous anecdote or remark.
49. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
50. An informal term for a father.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

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1. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
2. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
3. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
6. A genus of Ploceidae.
7. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
10. A small cake leavened with yeast.
18. The cry made by sheep.
19. The capital of Bahrain.
21. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
22. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
25. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
29. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
30. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
32. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
33. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar.
34. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
48. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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