Crossword Puzzle Number 4240 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
4. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
15. Noisy talk.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. Jordan's port.
22. Any of various units of capacity.
26. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
30. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
33. A small cake leavened with yeast.
34. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
35. An associate degree in nursing.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
47. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
48. A light touch or stroke.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

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1. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
2. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
3. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
4. Common Indian weaverbird.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
7. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
19. An informal conversation.
20. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
21. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
23. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. A three-year law degree.
25. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
28. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
29. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
36. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. An informal term for a father.
39. The sixth month of the civil year.
41. The bill in a restaurant.
42. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
43. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
44. A master's degree in fine arts.
46. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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