Crossword Puzzle Number 7885 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A decree that prohibits something.
4. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
7. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
11. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
12. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
13. Wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline.
14. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
15. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
16. Any of various units of capacity.
17. Largest crested screamer.
20. A resource.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
31. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
32. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
33. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
35. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
37. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
41. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
43. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
45. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
47. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
48. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
50. The quantity a cask will hold.
51. The cry made by sheep.
52. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
53. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).

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1. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
2. A genus of Indriidae.
3. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.
4. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
5. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
6. A genus of Platalea.
7. A measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test.
8. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
9. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
10. (trademark) A thin polyester film.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. A bachelor's degree in theology.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
26. A cgs unit of work or energy.
29. A humorous anecdote or remark.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
40. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
42. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
44. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. An associate degree in applied science.
49. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

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