Crossword Puzzle Number 2855 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A thin coat of water-base paint.
5. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
7. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng.
11. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
12. A state in northwestern North America.
13. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
14. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
16. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
17. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
30. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
32. Used especially in treating bruises.
35. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
36. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
40. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
41. 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.
45. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
46. The eighth month of the civil year.
47. A master's degree in business.
48. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
49. An elaborate song for solo voice.
50. A light touch or stroke.

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1. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
2. By bad luck.
3. A deep bow.
4. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
5. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
6. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
7. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
8. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
9. The compass point that is one point east of northeast.
10. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
15. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
18. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
19. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
21. God of death.
22. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
26. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
31. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
33. Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire.
34. Given or having a specified name.
35. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
37. A city in northern India.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. A port in southwestern Scotland.
43. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
44. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
45. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.

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