Crossword Puzzle Number 1421 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. An accountant certified by the state.
7. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
11. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
12. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
13. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
14. Being one more than two.
15. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
17. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
21. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
22. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
24. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
25. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. A flexible container with a single opening.
34. Informal terms for a mother.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. Philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events.
41. A Hindu prince or king in India.
45. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
46. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.
49. A local computer network for communication between computers.
50. A light touch or stroke.
51. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
52. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
53. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
54. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
55. An associate degree in applied science.

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1. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
2. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
3. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
4. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
5. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
6. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
7. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
8. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
9. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
10. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
16. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
31. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
38. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
39. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. An island in Indonesia south of Borneo.
44. Type genus of the Anatidae.
47. The sixth day of the week.
48. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology.

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