Crossword Puzzle Number 5295 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
4. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
8. A federally chartered savings bank.
11. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
16. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
17. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
19. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
21. Type genus of the Percidae.
22. Any of various spectacular plants of the genus Laelia having showy flowers in many colors.
25. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
26. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
35. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
41. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
43. A flexible container with a single opening.
45. An informal term for a father.
46. The Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life.
47. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
49. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
51. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.

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1. A small cake leavened with yeast.
2. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
3. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
4. A Russian river.
5. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
6. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
7. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
8. Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers.
9. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
10. English monk and scholar (672-735).
15. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
20. Large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
24. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Deciduous round-headed Asiatic tree widely grown in mild climates as an ornamental for its heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow-green flowers followed by hanging clusters of fleshy orange-red berries.
31. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
34. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
35. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
37. In bed.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
39. Common Indian weaverbird.
40. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
42. The residue that remains when something is burned.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. A state in New England.

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