Crossword Puzzle Number 6756 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
11. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
12. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
18. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
26. An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram.
30. A city in east central Texas.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. A light touch or stroke.
42. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
47. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
48. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
50. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
51. Of southern Europe.
52. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

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1. Greenish-yellow pear.
2. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
3. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
4. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
5. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
6. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. Owed and payable immediately or on demand.
8. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
15. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
19. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
20. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. The residue that remains when something is burned.
23. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
27. Extremely pleasing.
28. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
32. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. Type genus of the Anatidae.
37. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.).
39. Slightly open.
40. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
41. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
44. The cry made by sheep.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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