Crossword Puzzle Number 2683 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. For fear that.
5. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
8. Not reflecting light.
11. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
12. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
16. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
17. An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end.
20. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.
24. Fallow deer.
27. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
28. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
29. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
30. An ancient city in northern Portugal.
32. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
33. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
37. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
41. A branch of the Tai languages.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
45. A human limb.
48. A master's degree in business.
49. Offering fun and gaiety.
50. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
51. Tag the base runner to get him out.
52. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
53. An enclosed space.
54. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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1. A shaped mass of baked bread.
2. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
3. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
4. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
5. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
6. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
7. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
18. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
19. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
21. The month following March and preceding May.
22. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
23. An utterance made by exhaling audibly.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. One millionth of a gram.
31. An associate degree in applied science.
34. A genus of Lamnidae.
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. Jordan's port.
38. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
40. South African term for `boss'.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
43. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
44. A decree that prohibits something.
46. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
47. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.

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