Crossword Puzzle Number 3579 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The unit of frequency.
4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
8. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
11. Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse.
12. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
16. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
17. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
18. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
22. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
25. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
27. The cry made by sheep.
28. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
36. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
39. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land.
41. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
44. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
48. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
52. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
53. A city of central China.

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1. Baby bed with high sides.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. A thrusting blow with a knife.
4. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
5. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. The closing section of a musical composition.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
15. An awkward stupid person.
19. A ribbon used as a decoration.
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
26. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
29. A boy or man.
30. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
31. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
33. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
35. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
37. A punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence.
40. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
41. The bill in a restaurant.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. Being one more than two.
48. Before noon.
50. The second largest state.

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