Crossword Puzzle Number 7607 (Extra Small Grid)

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ACROSS

1. Any of various units of capacity.
4. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
8. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. The bill in a restaurant.
15. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
16. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
21. A public promotion of some product or service.
25. The United Nations agency concerned with the international organization of food and agriculture.
27. A worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs.
28. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
31. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
33. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
34. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
36. An accountant certified by the state.
38. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
40. Lower in esteem.
44. A state in midwestern United States.
45. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
48. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
49. A master's degree in library science.
51. In bed.
52. Goddess of fate.
53. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
54. A small cake leavened with yeast.
55. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

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1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
4. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
5. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
6. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
7. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
8. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. (anatomy) A structure that resembles a shell in shape.
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. True mosses.
23. The basic unit of money in Romania.
24. 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).
26. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
32. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
35. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
36. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
37. A genus of Ploceidae.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
41. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
42. A deep orange-red variety of chalcedony.
43. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
47. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
50. A white trivalent metallic element.

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