Crossword Puzzle Number 3570 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
4. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
8. Any of various units of capacity.
11. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
12. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
13. (used especially of commodities) In the natural unprocessed condition.
14. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
15. (British) Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold.
19. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
23. The cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
32. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
40. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
41. Rounded like an egg.
42. God of the underworld.
43. Lacking in rigor or strictness.
44. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
45. (informal) Of the highest quality.

DOWN

1. Jordan's port.
2. (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) Quantifier meaning a smaller number of.
3. A large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation.
4. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg.
5. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
6. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
7. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
8. (informal) Exceptionally good.
9. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
10. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
18. The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full.
20. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
21. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
22. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. (trademark) An antacid.
27. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
30. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers.
31. Lower in esteem.
33. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
34. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
35. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.
37. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.
38. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
39. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

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