Crossword Puzzle Number 564 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
4. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
12. By bad luck.
13. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
14. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
15. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
16. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
17. Common Indian weaverbird.
19. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
21. 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.
24. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
27. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
31. A public square with room for pedestrians.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. A state in New England.
35. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A port city in southwestern Iran.
40. South African term for `boss'.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.
47. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
50. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
52. An informal term for a father.
53. A partially opened flower.
54. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.

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1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. Type genus of the Ranidae.
3. Distant in either space or time.
4. The sound made by a gentle blow.
5. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
8. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
9. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
10. Among the largest bony fish.
18. Filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
28. An informal term for a father.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
41. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
42. Type genus of the Anatidae.
43. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
46. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
51. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.

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