Crossword Puzzle Number 3901 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. The 4th planet from the sun.
8. A light touch or stroke.
11. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
16. An accountant certified by the state.
17. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
23. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
25. South African term for `boss'.
26. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
29. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
31. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
33. The residue that remains when something is burned.
36. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
37. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
39. (Greek mythology) A woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
47. Framework for holding objects.
48. Young of domestic cattle.
50. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
51. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
52. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
53. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.

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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
3. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
4. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
5. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
6. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
7. A fraudulent business scheme.
8. Relatively nontoxic South African herb smoked like tobacco.
9. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
10. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
20. The cry made by sheep.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. (informal) Exceptionally good.
27. A state in New England.
28. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
30. Clarified butter used in Indian cookery.
32. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
34. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
35. A protective structure resembling a scale.
38. Type genus of the Anatidae.
39. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
40. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
41. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
42. A Loloish language.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A federal agency that supervises carriers that transport goods and people between states.
49. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.

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