Crossword Puzzle Number 4822 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A federally chartered savings bank.
4. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
8. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
11. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
12. Advanced in years.
13. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.
14. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
15. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
16. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
17. Jordan's port.
19. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
21. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
22. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
28. A master's degree in business.
29. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
31. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
36. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
40. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
45. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
47. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
49. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
53. A quantity of no importance.
54. Offering fun and gaiety.
55. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.

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1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. A branch of the Tai languages.
3. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
4. A deep bow.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
7. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
18. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
20. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
23. In bed.
24. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
26. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
30. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
32. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
34. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
35. An addition that extends a main building.
37. An associate degree in applied science.
38. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
39. Muslim name for God.
41. Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design.
42. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. An informal term for a father.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
48. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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