Crossword Puzzle Number 4265 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
8. Of southern Europe.
11. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
12. How long something has existed.
13. An accountant certified by the state.
14. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
15. The cry made by sheep.
16. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
17. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
18. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
27. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico).
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
34. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
42. A unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
43. Young sheep.
48. A city in the European part of Russia.
49. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
50. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
52. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
53. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.

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1. Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.
2. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
3. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
4. (informal) Exceptionally good.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Seed of a pea plant.
8. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
9. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
20. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
22. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
23. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
29. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
32. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
35. A radioactive transuranic element.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
44. An associate degree in applied science.
45. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
46. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
47. The last (12th) month of the year.
48. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.

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