Crossword Puzzle Number 3565 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A decree that prohibits something.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
11. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
12. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
18. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
19. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
21. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
22. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
25. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.
28. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
29. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
32. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
34. The month following September and preceding November.
37. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
45. A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form v 1.
47. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
51. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
52. An enclosed space.
53. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
54. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.

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1. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
2. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
3. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
4. A bachelor's degree in science.
5. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
6. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. Tropical Asian starlings.
9. A branch of the Tai languages.
10. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
15. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
17. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
20. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
24. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
26. A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles.
27. A partially opened flower.
30. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
31. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
33. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
35. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
36. A bureaucrat who levies taxes.
38. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
43. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
44. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
46. A federally chartered savings bank.
49. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
50. A public promotion of some product or service.

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