Crossword Puzzle Number 4856 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
4. Constituting a copy or imitation of something.
8. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
11. A doctor's degree in education.
12. An imperfection in a device or machine.
13. A tight-fitting headdress.
14. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
16. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
17. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
19. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
22. A flexible container with a single opening.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
28. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
34. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
43. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
48. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
49. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
50. An informal term for a father.
51. The bill in a restaurant.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
54. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
55. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.

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1. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
2. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
3. A public promotion of some product or service.
4. A master's degree in fine arts.
5. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
6. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
7. The basic unit of money in China.
8. Being nine more than ninety.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
10. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
15. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
18. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
20. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
21. A master's degree in business.
23. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
24. Greenish-yellow pear.
27. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
29. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
36. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
37. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
46. An associate degree in applied science.
47. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.

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