Crossword Puzzle Number 5364 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Take in solid food.
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
11. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
12. The basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea.
13. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
14. A period of time spent sleeping.
15. The basic unit of money in South Africa.
16. Black tropical American cuckoo.
17. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. Freed of dependence on something especially (for mammals) mother's milk.
21. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
22. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
23. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
25. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
27. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
29. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
31. Singing jazz.
33. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
34. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
37. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
40. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
42. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
44. A light touch or stroke.
45. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
46. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
48. Any high mountain.
49. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
50. Type genus of the Anatidae.

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1. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
2. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
3. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
4. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise, as of a door.
5. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
6. (Welsh myth) The other world.
7. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
8. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
9. The brightest star in Cygnus.
10. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
18. A card game for 2 players.
20. A short synopsis.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. A flexible container with a single opening.
28. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
30. A native of ancient Troy.
32. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
33. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
36. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. A state in midwestern United States.
38. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
39. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
41. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
43. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
44. A Mid-Atlantic state.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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