Crossword Puzzle Number 1383 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. A book of the New Testament.
8. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. A person of French descent.
13. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
16. A light touch or stroke.
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. A state in northwestern North America.
20. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
21. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
23. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
28. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
31. Jordan's port.
34. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
35. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
43. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
48. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
53. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
54. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
55. Unknown god.

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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
5. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
6. A narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place v 1.
7. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
8. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
9. Type genus of the Anatidae.
10. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. The atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element.
25. The cry made by sheep.
27. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
37. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
40. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
46. An accountant certified by the state.
47. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
51. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

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