Crossword Puzzle Number 6623 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. Administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.
4. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
8. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
11. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. An accidental happening.
14. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
15. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
19. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
21. An uproarious party.
24. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
30. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
33. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
35. Water frozen in the solid state.
36. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans.
39. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
41. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
43. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
44. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
47. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
48. English monk and scholar (672-735).
49. Automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes.

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1. A landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa.
2. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music.
3. A quantity of no importance.
4. A person forced to flee from home or country.
5. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
6. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
7. An informal term for a father.
8. An informal conversation.
9. Offering fun and gaiety.
10. The complete duration of something.
18. The airforce of Great Britain.
20. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
22. 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.
23. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
29. Earlier in time.
31. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
34. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
38. An artificial source of visible illumination.
40. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
42. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
45. A Russian river.

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