Crossword Puzzle Number 5624 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
5. A local and habitual twitching especially in the face.
8. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
11. English essayist (1775-1834).
12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
13. The last (12th) month of the year.
14. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
15. A branch of the Tai languages.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
19. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
21. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
22. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
23. A three-year law degree.
24. A young woman making her debut into society.
26. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
36. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. A Russian river.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
45. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
47. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
49. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
50. A small cake leavened with yeast.
53. An affirmative.
54. In bed.
55. A benevolent aspect of Devi.

DOWN

1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Being one more than one hundred.
4. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
5. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
6. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
7. (astronomy) An indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels.
8. A public promotion of some product or service.
9. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
10. The act of scanning.
16. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
17. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
20. The state of owing money.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
31. Before noon.
33. A French abbot.
34. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.
38. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
40. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
41. A Loloish language.
42. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
43. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
44. A Hindu prince or king in India.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. A rare polyvalent metallic element of the platinum group.

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