Crossword Puzzle Number 5559 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
4. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. A master's degree in business.
11. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
12. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
13. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
14. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
15. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
16. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
17. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
19. A light touch or stroke.
21. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug).
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
36. The cry made by sheep.
38. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
39. 1/10 gram.
40. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
43. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
47. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
50. A human limb.
51. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
52. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
53. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.

DOWN

1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
3. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
5. Advanced in years.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
8. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
18. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
20. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
22. An associate degree in nursing.
23. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
25. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
26. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
27. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
31. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
34. Insectivorous usually semiaquatic web-footed amphibian with smooth moist skin and long hind legs.
35. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
37. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
38. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
41. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
42. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
44. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.

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