Crossword Puzzle Number 7063 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
8. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
11. A rapid bustling commotion.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. A decree that prohibits something.
15. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. An oil port in southern Iraq.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
28. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. A light touch or stroke.
36. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
40. A member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia.
44. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
49. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
52. A city in the European part of Russia.
53. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
54. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
55. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
56. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
57. A small cake leavened with yeast.
58. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

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1. A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient).
2. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
3. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
4. (informal) Roused to anger.
5. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
6. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
7. Jordan's port.
8. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. United States singer and film actor (1904-1977).
20. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A state in midwestern United States.
30. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
32. Brittle flat bread eaten at Passover.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
41. A European river.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
43. God of love and erotic desire.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. 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.
46. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
47. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
50. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
51. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.

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