Crossword Puzzle Number 5530 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
4. A Loloish language.
8. The month following February and preceding April.
11. Informal terms for the mouth.
12. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
14. (informal) Of the highest quality.
15. A feeling of intense anger.
16. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
17. (Old Testament) The second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
19. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
20. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
21. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
26. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
30. The capital of Croatia.
32. God of wealth and love.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A state in midwestern United States.
37. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
39. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
48. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. Not in good physical or mental health.
53. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
54. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
55. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.

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1. The eighth month of the civil year.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
6. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
7. In bed.
8. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
18. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
22. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.
25. A master's degree in fine arts.
27. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
28. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
29. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
31. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
33. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
34. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
38. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
39. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
40. A French abbot.
41. Two items of the same kind.
43. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
45. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
50. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.

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