Crossword Puzzle Number 223 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. A piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments.
8. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
11. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
14. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
15. An enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal.
16. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
17. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
27. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
29. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
32. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
35. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
38. Either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied short-legged dogs with erect ears and a fox-like head.
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
44. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
45. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
46. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
47. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
48. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
50. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.

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1. English monk and scholar (672-735).
2. A major god.
3. A deep bow.
4. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
5. Informal terms for a meal.
6. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime.
7. God of love and erotic desire.
8. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
9. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
20. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
23. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
25. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
28. The cry made by sheep.
30. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
31. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
33. Showing a brooding ill humor.
34. Found near the Channel Islands.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
39. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
42. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
43. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
44. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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