Crossword Puzzle Number 2872 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. The cry made by sheep.
11. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
12. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
13. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
14. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
15. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
16. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. Wool of the alpaca.
29. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
30. Considerate and solicitous care.
33. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
34. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
36. 16 ounces.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. Station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.
43. An associate degree in applied science.
45. A resource.
48. Type genus of the Nepidae.
49. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. A branch of the Tai languages.
52. A flexible container with a single opening.
53. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
18. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
20. A young woman making her debut into society.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
26. A long-playing phonograph record.
27. Seed of a pea plant.
28. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
32. An official or legal cancellation.
35. A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
37. Common Indian weaverbird.
38. Negation of a word or group of words.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
41. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
42. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
44. A shape that sags.
46. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
47. A light touch or stroke.
48. Unknown god.

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