Crossword Puzzle Number 2395 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. Make an etching of.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
17. Minor or subordinate.
18. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
19. (Sumerian and Akkadian) A demon personifying death.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
28. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
34. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
36. 1/10 gram.
37. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. A female domestic.
45. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
48. A small island.
49. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
50. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
52. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
53. A light touch or stroke.

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1. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
2. The act of catching an object with the hands.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. The square of a body of any size of type.
5. Covered with paving material.
6. An informal conversation.
7. The wrist bone in line with the 4th and 5th fingers.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. Squash bugs.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. 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.
25. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
27. An (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown.
29. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
30. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
33. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
35. Lower in esteem.
36. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
38. Chief port of Yemen.
39. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
46. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
47. A doctor's degree in education.

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