Crossword Puzzle Number 3588 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Fallow deer.
5. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
8. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
11. The basic unit of money in China.
12. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
13. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
14. An elaborate song for solo voice.
15. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
25. The cry made by sheep.
28. Urged social reform in 19th century England.
30. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
32. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
35. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
36. Extremely pleasing.
39. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
42. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
46. A thrusting blow with a knife.
48. Wild and domestic cattle.
51. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
52. (informal) Of the highest quality.
53. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
54. A benevolent aspect of Devi.

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1. Two items of the same kind.
2. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
3. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
4. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
5. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
6. The sixth month of the civil year.
7. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
8. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
9. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
10. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. A light touch or stroke.
19. The sound made by corvine birds.
23. A professional cook.
26. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
33. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
34. Lower in esteem.
35. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
37. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
38. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
41. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
44. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Informal terms for a mother.
47. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
48. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
49. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
50. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

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