Crossword Puzzle Number 8060 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
5. A light touch or stroke.
8. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
11. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
13. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
14. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
15. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
16. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
17. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
20. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
25. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
27. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
28. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
32. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
34. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
37. Appeal or request earnestly.
39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
42. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. The general activity of selling.
50. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
51. The second largest city in Tunisia.
52. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
53. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. Tag the base runner to get him out.

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1. Other than what is under consideration or implied.
2. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
3. Step on it.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. A licensed medical practitioner.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. A small cake leavened with yeast.
8. The closing section of a musical composition.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
19. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
21. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
22. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
23. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
24. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
26. A person forced to flee from home or country.
29. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
30. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
31. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
33. An accountant certified by the state.
35. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
38. The sacred city of Lamaism.
39. A licensed medical practitioner.
40. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
41. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
44. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
47. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
48. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
49. The habitation of wild animals.
50. Before noon.

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