Crossword Puzzle Number 6616 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy.
5. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
7. Derive or receive pleasure from.
11. An unfledged or nestling hawk.
12. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
13. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
14. A decree that prohibits something.
15. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
16. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
17. Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts.
18. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
22. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
23. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.
24. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
26. The last (12th) month of the year.
30. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
33. Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid.
37. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
38. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
39. The sixth month of the civil year.
42. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
43. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
44. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
45. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
46. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.

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1. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).
2. The eighth month of the civil year.
3. A starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant.
4. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
7. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
8. On or toward the lee.
9. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
19. One million periods per second.
20. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
21. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
25. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
27. Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share.
28. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
29. A port city in southwestern Iran.
31. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
32. Lower in esteem.
33. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
34. A loud harsh or strident noise.
35. (Greek mythology) King of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus.
36. Razor clams.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.

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