Crossword Puzzle Number 6174 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
13. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
14. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
15. God of love and erotic desire.
16. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
20. Any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers.
23. A flexible container with a single opening.
26. The capital of Croatia.
27. By bad luck.
29. Any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule.
30. A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters.
31. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
35. A magic power or magic spell.
37. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
40. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
42. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.
43. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
45. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
47. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
49. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
50. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
51. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.

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1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
3. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
4. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. A decree that prohibits something.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
9. Fallow deer.
10. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
17. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
18. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
21. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
22. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
24. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
25. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
28. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
32. Flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point.
33. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
34. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
36. Of or relating to near the ear.
37. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
38. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
41. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
44. Informal terms for a mother.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. An informal term for a father.

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