Crossword Puzzle Number 3557 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
4. A small island.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
13. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
14. A label made of cardboard or plastic or metal.
15. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
16. An associate degree in applied science.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A native-born Israeli.
21. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
22. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
27. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
31. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
33. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
36. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
44. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
45. A small cake leavened with yeast.
48. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
49. A light touch or stroke.
50. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
52. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
53. A doctor's degree in education.
54. Wearing or provided with clothing.

DOWN

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
4. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. (Irish) The sea personified.
7. Painter (born in Germany, resident of France and the United States) who was a cofounder of Dadaism.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
10. Flat tableland with steep edges.
18. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. The residue that remains when something is burned.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
24. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
26. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
30. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
35. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
37. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
38. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
39. In bed.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
43. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
46. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
47. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
51. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.

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