Crossword Puzzle Number 3906 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.
4. A master's degree in library science.
8. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
11. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. The money risked on a gamble.
14. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
16. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
17. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
18. (Greek legend) The greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. Causing a dull and steady pain.
24. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
26. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
29. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
30. Any of various units of capacity.
31. A young woman making her debut into society.
33. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
46. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
47. (aeronautical) Pertaining to the tail section of a plane.
49. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
50. Avatar of Vishnu.
52. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
53. Unknown god.
54. In bed.

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1. A small carriage in which a baby or child is pushed around.
2. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
3. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
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. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
9. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
10. A city in central New York.
15. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
19. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
21. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A Russian river.
28. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
34. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
36. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
38. Type genus of the Anatidae.
39. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
40. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
41. The highest level or degree attainable.
42. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

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