Crossword Puzzle Number 5684 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
5. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
8. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
11. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
12. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
15. A tight-fitting headdress.
16. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
17. A doctor's degree in optometry.
18. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. An affirmative.
22. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
25. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
28. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
34. An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate.
37. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
43. An associate degree in applied science.
44. The sixth day of the week.
45. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
46. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
47. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
48. A language unit by which a person or thing is known.
49. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.

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1. Head of soft crinkly leaves.
2. A group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor.
3. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
4. (informal) Exceptionally good.
5. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
6. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
7. Of southern Europe.
8. A small cake leavened with yeast.
9. A city in northern India.
10. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
19. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
21. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
23. Made of fir or pine.
24. God of death.
26. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
29. Wool of the alpaca.
31. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
32. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
33. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
35. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
36. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of.
37. A small piece of cloth.
38. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
41. A master's degree in theology.
42. The compass point midway between east and southeast.

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