Crossword Puzzle Number 7483 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
4. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
8. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.
11. An accountant certified by the state.
12. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
13. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
14. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
15. A light touch or stroke.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
18. (informal) Exceptionally good.
20. Unknown god.
21. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
26. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
29. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. Including all components without exception.
35. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
37. An associate degree in applied science.
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
44. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
46. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
48. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
49. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
50. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
51. Not widely known.
53. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
54. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
55. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.

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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. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
5. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
6. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
7. A state in northwestern North America.
8. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
9. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
10. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
16. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
19. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
22. United States film actor (born in Hungary) noted for portraying monsters (1884-1956).
25. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
27. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
28. Call upon in supplication.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
31. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
34. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925).
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
37. The month following February and preceding April.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
41. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
42. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
43. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
45. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
47. A resource.
52. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

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