Crossword Puzzle Number 5273 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
5. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. Channel into a new direction.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Soft creamy white cheese.
15. A light touch or stroke.
16. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
17. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
24. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
28. 1/10 gram.
30. The cry made by sheep.
31. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
33. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
35. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
38. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
42. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
43. Being two more than fifty.
46. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Extremely pleasing.
49. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
52. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).

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1. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
2. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
3. Relating to or characteristic of a tribe.
4. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
5. The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
26. A person forced to flee from home or country.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.
32. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
36. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
37. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. Type genus of the Ranidae.
40. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
41. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
44. Being one more than two.
45. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.

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