Crossword Puzzle Number 6796 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
4. An associate degree in applied science.
7. Upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame.
11. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
12. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
13. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
14. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
17. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
18. A connecting point at which several lines come together.
21. A small Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and Tibet.
23. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
31. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
35. The eleventh month of the civil year.
36. Remove from memory or existence.
39. (law) The seat for judges in a courtroom.
41. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
44. Related by blood.
45. Fiddler crabs.
48. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
49. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
50. An enclosed space.
51. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.

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1. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
2. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
3. A loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral.
4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. A state in north central United States.
7. 10 jiao equal 1 yuan.
8. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
9. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
10. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
15. Family based on male descent.
16. Offering fun and gaiety.
19. A flexible container with a single opening.
20. God of wealth and love.
22. A genus of Ploceidae.
24. One millionth of a gram.
27. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
29. Port city of Denmark in eastern Jutland.
30. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A means of serving.
33. The last (12th) month of the year.
34. A master's degree in education.
37. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
38. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
40. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
42. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
43. An accountant certified by the state.
44. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A radioactive element of the actinide series.

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