Crossword Puzzle Number 7417 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
8. A flexible container with a single opening.
11. A French abbot.
12. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
15. A humorous anecdote or remark.
16. 10 grams.
17. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
18. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
20. Lower in esteem.
22. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
23. Small beads made from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans.
26. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
32. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
38. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
40. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
41. Avatar of Vishnu.
44. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
45. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
46. A slender double-reed instrument.
47. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
48. A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore.
49. A quantity of no importance.
50. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.

DOWN

1. A street of small shops (especially in Orient).
2. Make less active or intense.
3. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
5. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
6. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
7. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
8. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
9. By bad luck.
10. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
19. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
21. Something causes misery or death.
24. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. (trademark) An antacid.
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
31. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
33. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. A machine or person that adds.
35. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A genus of Mustelidae.
42. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.

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