Crossword Puzzle Number 3779 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
4. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
14. A body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law.
15. A native of ancient Troy.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
20. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
22. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
25. A state in midwestern United States.
26. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
32. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
33. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
34. An honorary degree in science.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. Contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
41. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
47. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
48. Type genus of the Ranidae.
49. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.
50. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
51. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
3. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
4. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
5. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.
6. A genus of Ploceidae.
7. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
8. Relating to a recently developed fashion or style.
9. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
10. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
16. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
18. The cry made by sheep.
21. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
23. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
24. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
27. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
28. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
30. An insane person.
31. Covered with scabs.
35. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness.
36. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
37. A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
42. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
43. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
45. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.

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