Crossword Puzzle Number 5639 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
5. A public promotion of some product or service.
7. Material used to daub walls.
11. Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796).
12. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
13. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
14. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
15. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
16. Slow to learn or understand.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
22. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. (British slang) Cafe.
28. A port city in southwestern Iran.
31. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
32. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
36. An associate degree in nursing.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. A member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia.
41. An enclosed space.
43. The cry made by sheep.
44. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
45. Late time of life.
46. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
47. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.

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1. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
4. A bachelor's degree in religion.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
7. Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest.
8. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
9. Cause to lose one's nerve.
10. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
18. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
20. A penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci.
21. The act of scanning.
24. The food served and eaten at one time.
26. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
27. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
29. Obvious and dull.
30. A light touch or stroke.
33. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
34. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
35. A river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire.
38. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
42. Being one hundred more than three hundred.

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