Crossword Puzzle Number 7420 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
8. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
11. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
12. The capital and largest city of Japan.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
16. The cry made by sheep.
17. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
22. A state in northwestern North America.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.
29. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
38. Jordan's port.
41. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
44. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
47. Any plant of the genus Erica.
48. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
50. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
54. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.
55. Anything that serves as an enticement.
56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
57. An informal term for a father.

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1. Offering fun and gaiety.
2. In bed.
3. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
4. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
5. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
6. The sixth month of the civil year.
7. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
8. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Related to or located at the back.
15. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
21. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
26. Being ten more than eighty.
27. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
28. One of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping.
30. Gone by.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
35. A French abbot.
37. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
39. God of love and erotic desire.
40. The basic unit of money in Thailand.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
43. Type genus of the Ranidae.
46. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
47. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
48. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
53. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
54. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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