Crossword Puzzle Number 3688 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
4. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. (informal) Of the highest quality.
12. Made of fir or pine.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
15. An informal term for a father.
16. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
17. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
20. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
24. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
26. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
27. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. Jordan's port.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
44. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
47. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
48. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
49. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
50. English monk and scholar (672-735).

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1. United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927).
2. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
3. The last (12th) month of the year.
4. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
5. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
6. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
19. To fix or set securely or deeply.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. Any high mountain.
25. An enclosed space.
28. A state in midwestern United States.
29. A radioactive transuranic element.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
36. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
37. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
38. In bed.
39. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
42. God of the earth.
43. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
44. A state in midwestern United States.
45. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
46. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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