Crossword Puzzle Number 4572 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
4. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.
11. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
12. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
13. Largest known toad species.
14. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
15. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
16. A share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given.
17. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
18. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
19. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
27. Food for domestic livestock.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
33. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
35. An honorary degree in science.
36. An associate degree in nursing.
39. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.
43. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
47. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
48. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.

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1. Jordan's port.
2. Of or relating to the kidneys.
3. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
6. The month following March and preceding May.
7. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
8. Highly excited.
9. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.
10. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
20. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
21. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
22. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
29. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
30. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
34. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. Distant in either space or time.
40. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
41. (informal) Roused to anger.
42. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
43. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
44. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).

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