Crossword Puzzle Number 4680 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The act of scanning.
5. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
8. The month following September and preceding November.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. (Irish) The sea personified.
13. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
14. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
15. (informal) Of the highest quality.
16. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
17. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
18. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981).
24. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
25. Any of various units of capacity.
27. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
28. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
40. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
41. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
44. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
46. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
49. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
50. An elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners).

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1. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction.
2. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
3. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
4. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. A member of a Caddo people formerly living in north central Texas.
7. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
8. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
9. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
10. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea.
22. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
23. Chevrotain somewhat larger than the kanchil.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
30. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
31. A native of ancient Troy.
34. Very dark black.
35. South African term for `boss'.
36. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
38. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
43. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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