Crossword Puzzle Number 5988 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
4. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
8. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
11. Informal terms for the mouth.
12. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. Preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).
16. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
18. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
21. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
23. A Mid-Atlantic state.
24. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
25. A Loloish language.
29. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
32. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
33. A French abbot.
36. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
37. Tag the base runner to get him out.
38. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
39. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
42. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
54. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.

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1. A compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing.
2. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
5. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
6. A state in northwestern North America.
7. Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.
8. Loose or flaccid body fat.
9. Fallow deer.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
15. A large and stately mansion.
17. Any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers.
19. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
22. Young of domestic cattle.
26. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
27. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
30. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
34. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
40. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
41. The face of a timepiece.
43. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
44. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
45. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
51. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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