Crossword Puzzle Number 3333 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
5. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
12. Tag the base runner to get him out.
13. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
14. One thousand grams.
15. A radioactive transuranic element.
16. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
17. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
19. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
23. A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
28. 1/10 gram.
31. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders.
38. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
43. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
44. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
45. Type genus of the Ranidae.
46. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
47. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
48. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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1. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
2. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
3. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
4. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
5. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
6. A crime syndicate in the United States.
7. Lie adjacent to another.
8. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
10. A city in central New York.
18. A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
20. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. (physics) Of or pertaining to a meson.
24. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. One million periods per second.
29. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
30. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
32. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
33. The right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged.
34. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
35. A quantity of no importance.
36. Very dark black.
37. An informal term for a father.
39. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
40. The last (12th) month of the year.
41. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.

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