Crossword Puzzle Number 6510 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
8. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
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. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
15. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
26. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
35. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
38. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
47. Little known Kamarupan languages.
49. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
52. An audiotape recording of sound.
53. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
54. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
55. A rapid bustling commotion.

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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. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
6. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
7. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
8. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
25. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
29. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
30. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
33. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
36. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
39. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
41. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
42. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
43. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
45. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene.
48. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
51. Extremely pleasing.

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