Crossword Puzzle Number 2333 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
5. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
7. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
11. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
12. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
13. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
14. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
17. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
18. Half the width of an em.
19. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
24. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. The cry made by sheep.
35. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
42. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
43. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
45. An informal term for a father.
46. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
48. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
50. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
51. The residue that remains when something is burned.
52. Make an etching of.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

DOWN

1. Denuded of leaves.
2. A sign of something about to happen.
3. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
4. God of wealth and love.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
7. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
8. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
9. Tropical Asian starlings.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
15. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
16. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
21. A doctor's degree in optometry.
22. Extremely pleasing.
23. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
28. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
32. A master's degree in business.
33. An instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
39. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
40. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
41. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
44. An associate degree in applied science.
49. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).

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