Crossword Puzzle Number 6387 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval).
11. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
12. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
13. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
14. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
15. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
16. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
17. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
20. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
23. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
29. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
31. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
33. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. Someone whose business is advertising.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
45. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
47. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
48. A light touch or stroke.

DOWN

1. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
2. Of or like a feeble old woman.
3. God of wealth and love.
4. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
5. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
6. (informal) Exceptionally good.
7. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
8. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy.
9. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
10. (Japanese) A form of chess played on a board of 81 squares.
18. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
21. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
22. Unknown god.
24. Trace the shape of.
27. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
28. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. The cry made by sheep.
35. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).
36. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
42. A doctor's degree in education.
43. A master's degree in business.
44. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).

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