Crossword Puzzle Number 8070 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. An enclosed space.
7. A company emblem or device.
11. The basic unit of money in Romania.
12. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
13. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
14. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
15. A light springing movement upwards or forwards.
17. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
18. Jordan's port.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
25. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
26. French novelist.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
32. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
33. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
42. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. (informal) Of the highest quality.
47. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
49. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
50. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
51. Informal terms for clothing.

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1. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. A shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus).
4. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries.
5. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
6. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
7. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
8. An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles.
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
16. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
23. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
27. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. Any plant of the genus Erica.
35. Held back.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
39. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
40. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
41. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
43. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
44. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
48. A state in the Rocky Mountains.

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