Crossword Puzzle Number 3832 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
4. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.
12. Massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.
13. A human limb.
14. On, to, or at the top.
16. Being one hundred more than two hundred.
17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
21. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. Port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea.
25. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
26. A large fleet.
29. An associate degree in applied science.
32. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969).
37. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.
39. Gone by.
42. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
43. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
44. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
46. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
47. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
48. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.

DOWN

1. Toward the mouth or oral region.
2. The basic unit of money in Lesotho.
3. Away from the mouth or oral region.
4. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
5. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
8. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
9. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
10. A city in northern India.
15. A genus of Ploceidae.
19. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
20. God of death.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
27. Informal terms for a mother.
28. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
30. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
31. A river in eastern France.
33. Beet lacking swollen root.
34. Well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force.
35. State in northeastern India.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. A humorous anecdote or remark.
45. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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