Crossword Puzzle Number 2398 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
11. An informal term for a father.
12. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
13. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. The sixth month of the civil year.
16. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
17. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Informal terms for a mother.
22. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
24. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
28. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
29. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
32. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
35. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
38. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
44. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
48. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
49. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
50. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
51. An associate degree in applied science.
52. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
53. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.

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1. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
4. (trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork.
5. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
8. The site of an archeological exploration.
9. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
10. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
18. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
20. Type genus of the Caricaceae.
23. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
25. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
30. Nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste.
31. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. An informal term for a father.
39. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan.
43. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
47. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.

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