Crossword Puzzle Number 2566 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
4. Your friends and acquaintances.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
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. (criminal law) Money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial.
15. The fatty flesh of eel.
16. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
17. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. God of wealth and love.
23. An informal term for a father.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
32. (informal) Roused to anger.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
36. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
42. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
43. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
46. An informal term for a father.
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
49. A quantity that is added.
51. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.

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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
3. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
4. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles).
5. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
6. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
7. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
19. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
22. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
24. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
26. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. Unknown god.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
35. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
37. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
38. Free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception.
39. Young of domestic cattle.
40. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. The cry made by sheep.
48. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
50. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.

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