Crossword Puzzle Number 7271 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. Greenish-yellow pear.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. An accountant certified by the state.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. A city in the European part of Russia.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
15. A master's degree in fine arts.
17. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
18. (informal) Exceptionally good.
20. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
23. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
25. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
28. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
32. Lower in esteem.
35. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
38. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
43. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
48. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. A sudden short attack.
51. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
52. A castrated tomcat.
53. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
55. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

DOWN

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
3. God of death.
4. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
5. An awkward stupid person.
6. A fraudulent business scheme.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
9. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
10. A small cake leavened with yeast.
16. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
19. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
21. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
22. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
24. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
27. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
29. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
31. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
33. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
34. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
36. Muslim name for God.
37. The month following February and preceding April.
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
41. English essayist (1775-1834).
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
46. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
47. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
50. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.

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