Crossword Puzzle Number 3589 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing.
8. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
11. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
12. South African term for `boss'.
13. An enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin).
14. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
16. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
21. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
24. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
32. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. (of the feet of some animals) Having the digits connected by a thin fold of skin.
39. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
41. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
42. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
45. 10 grams.
47. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
51. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
52. The second largest city in Tunisia.
53. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
54. An associate degree in applied science.
55. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
56. Someone who is morally reprehensible.

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1. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.
2. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
3. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
4. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
5. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
6. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
7. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
8. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
17. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. The cry made by sheep.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
23. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
26. The sound made by corvine birds.
29. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
35. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
38. A city in northwestern Turkey.
39. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
40. Common Indian weaverbird.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
46. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by.
48. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
49. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
50. The last (12th) month of the year.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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