Crossword Puzzle Number 4543 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
4. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
8. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
11. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
12. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
18. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
20. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
30. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. A bachelor's degree in religion.
34. A gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium chemically and is found in zirconium minerals.
35. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
39. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
42. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. Wool of the alpaca.
45. An associate degree in nursing.
46. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
51. At or constituting a border or edge.
52. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
53. The face of a timepiece.

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1. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
2. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
3. The sixth month of the civil year.
4. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
5. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
8. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
9. Using speech rather than writing.
10. A small cake leavened with yeast.
15. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. A Russian river.
23. An informal term for a father.
25. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.
26. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
27. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
28. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
32. Regional and archaic.
33. Any of various units of capacity.
36. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
37. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
39. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
40. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
41. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
50. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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