Crossword Puzzle Number 6644 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. Earlier than the present time.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
13. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
14. The bill in a restaurant.
15. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
20. An associate degree in nursing.
21. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
22. The cry made by sheep.
24. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
37. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
43. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
45. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
46. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
48. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
52. A newt in its terrestrial stage of development.
53. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.

DOWN

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. The government of the Roman Catholic Church.
5. A town in central Belgium.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
8. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
9. An informal term for a father.
10. A primeval personification of air and breath.
16. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
18. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
19. Lower in esteem.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
26. 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.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
34. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. Russian country house.
38. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
40. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
41. Type genus of the Anatidae.
42. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
44. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
47. A Mid-Atlantic state.
50. Informal terms for a mother.

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