Crossword Puzzle Number 5731 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Advanced in years.
5. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
8. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
11. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
14. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
16. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
17. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
18. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
26. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
46. Take in solid food.
47. One or some or every or all without specification.
48. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).

DOWN

1. A fit of shivering.
2. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
3. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. Made of fir or pine.
5. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
6. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
9. A French abbot.
10. Worthless people.
15. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
19. Extremely pleasing.
20. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
22. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
28. A native of ancient Troy.
29. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
32. Lower in esteem.
33. Obvious and dull.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
38. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
43. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
45. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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