Crossword Puzzle Number 6538 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.
4. A French abbot.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
12. Common Indian weaverbird.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
15. In bed.
16. Seed of a pea plant.
17. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
19. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
21. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
22. In addition.
24. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
26. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity.
30. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
31. A student who studies excessively.
32. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Lacking excess flesh.
38. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
42. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
46. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
47. Being one more than two.
48. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
50. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
51. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
52. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
53. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

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1. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
2. A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else.
3. A shop where a variety of goods are sold.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
6. Minor or subordinate.
7. King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959).
8. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
10. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
18. Any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits.
20. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
23. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
25. Step on it.
28. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
29. A state in north central United States.
33. Suggestive of the supernatural.
34. Of or relating to or containing barium.
37. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. A city in northern India.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
45. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.

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