Crossword Puzzle Number 5949 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
7. Related to or located at the back.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. A bachelor's degree in theology.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
16. South African term for `boss'.
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
20. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
22. Black tropical American cuckoo.
23. An expression of greeting.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
25. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
28. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
29. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
31. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
32. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
34. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
38. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
42. The month following February and preceding April.
43. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
44. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
45. A master's degree in fine arts.
47. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
48. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.

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1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
5. Largest crested screamer.
6. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
9. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
10. 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.
18. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
21. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
26. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
27. Foul with waste matter.
30. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
33. God of love and erotic desire.
35. Projectiles to be fired from a gun.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
39. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
40. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
41. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
42. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

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