Crossword Puzzle Number 3159 (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. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
12. In bed.
13. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
14. The month following February and preceding April.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
16. Minor or subordinate.
17. A member of the Tungus speaking people of Mongolian race who are a nomadic people widely spread over eastern Siberia.
20. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
24. Large Indian antelope.
25. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, questions and issues.
30. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
31. A television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
37. The location of something surrounded by other things.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
42. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
44. A metric unit of length equal to ten meters.
46. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. Informal terms for the mouth.
48. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.

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1. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
2. Speaking a Slavic language.
3. Made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it.
4. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A person with an unusual or odd personality.
7. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
8. 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).
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. A desert in southern Israel.
19. A warning against certain acts.
22. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
23. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
27. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
28. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
29. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
32. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
33. A disreputable vagrant.
34. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
35. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
38. A thrusting blow with a knife.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
45. A bachelor's degree in science.

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