Crossword Puzzle Number 5349 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Characteristic of a mob.
4. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
8. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
13. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
14. Having leadership guidance.
15. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. A fraudulent business scheme.
19. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
21. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
24. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
31. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
33. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
34. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
36. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
37. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
39. A state in midwestern United States.
43. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
46. A telegram sent abroad.
48. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
51. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
52. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
55. 1/1000 gram.

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1. A master's degree in library science.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. Modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave.
5. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
6. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
7. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
8. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
9. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
18. A master's degree in business.
20. A small cut of meat including part of a rib.
22. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
23. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
29. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
35. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
38. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome.
40. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
41. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. The median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly.
44. (informal) Roused to anger.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
47. The cry made by sheep.
50. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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