Crossword Puzzle Number 6905 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
5. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
13. A doctor's degree in education.
14. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
15. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
16. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. A master's degree in business.
23. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
25. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
29. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
32. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
40. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
45. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
46. An awkward and inexperienced youth.
47. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
48. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
49. How long something has existed.
50. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.

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1. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Tag the base runner to get him out.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
6. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
7. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
10. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
18. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. Of or relating to o occurring in a tube such as e.g. the fallopian tube or eustachian tube.
20. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
22. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
24. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
28. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.
36. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
37. A French abbot.
38. A small cake leavened with yeast.
39. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
42. The month following July and preceding September.
43. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
44. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
45. A state in northwestern North America.

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