Crossword Puzzle Number 5670 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. Extremely pleasing.
7. Any of various small biting flies.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
13. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. 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.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. Jordan's port.
20. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
23. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. The cry made by sheep.
30. A flexible container with a single opening.
31. How long something has existed.
32. A light touch or stroke.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
47. An associate degree in applied science.
48. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
50. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
51. The residue that remains when something is burned.
52. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
53. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.

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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. Foul with waste matter.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
7. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
8. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
22. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
35. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
38. A vigorous blow.
40. Type genus of the Ranidae.
41. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
42. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
44. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
45. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
46. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
49. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.

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