Crossword Puzzle Number 3580 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A container.
4. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
7. The act of losing.
11. (Babylonian) The sky god.
12. A decree that prohibits something.
13. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
14. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
15. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
18. Black tropical American cuckoo.
20. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
22. English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
27. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
39. An oil port in southern Iraq.
41. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. A radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized.
46. The cry made by sheep.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
51. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
52. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
53. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
54. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
55. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
56. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.

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1. Obvious and dull.
2. Complacently or inanely foolish.
3. An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile.
4. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
5. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
6. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
7. A long-playing phonograph record.
8. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
9. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
10. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
24. Not only so, but.
28. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. A port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman.
34. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
35. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
38. A telegram sent abroad.
39. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
40. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
44. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
47. An associate degree in applied science.
48. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
51. A public promotion of some product or service.

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