Crossword Puzzle Number 5239 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. Gone by.
11. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
12. A small wooded hollow.
13. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
14. The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.
16. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
17. The square of a body of any size of type.
18. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
21. An associate degree in nursing.
22. A major victory by the Romans over the Macedonians in 168 BC.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
38. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
43. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
46. (informal) Exceptionally good.
48. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
50. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
51. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
54. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
55. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
56. A master's degree in business.

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1. Walk or tramp about.
2. Broad in the beam.
3. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
5. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
10. A port city in northwestern Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.
15. Ruffed grouse.
19. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Fallow deer.
24. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
26. An enclosed space.
28. A Russian river.
30. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
36. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
39. Taken or to be taken at random.
40. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
41. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
42. The yield from plants in a single growing season.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
47. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
49. How long something has existed.
52. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
53. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.

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