Crossword Puzzle Number 824 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The seventh and last day of the week.
4. A Loloish language.
8. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
11. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
12. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
13. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.
18. 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.
20. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
25. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
30. American novelist (1909-1955).
33. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
35. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
38. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
43. French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857).
44. How long something has existed.
45. Using speech rather than writing.
46. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
47. An associate degree in applied science.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A fraudulent business scheme.
2. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
3. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
4. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
5. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
6. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.
7. A public promotion of some product or service.
8. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
9. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
10. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
19. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
26. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
28. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
29. Minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings.
31. Type genus of the Gadidae.
32. A colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid used as an inhalation anesthetic.
36. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
37. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
39. The cry made by sheep.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. The foot of a human being.
42. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.

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