| ACROSS
1. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
5. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. A river in western Thailand.
12. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
13. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
14. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
15. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
16. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
17. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
21. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
24. English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901).
28. A city in northern India.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. (informal) Of the highest quality.
39. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
48. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
49. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
50. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.
51. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
52. A tight-fitting headdress.
53. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ.
|
DOWN
1. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
2. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
3. Half the width of an em.
4. A fee charged for exchanging currencies.
5. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
6. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
7. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
8. The sixth month of the civil year.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
18. (computer science) The part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing.
19. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
20. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
23. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
25. A metallic element of the rare earth group.
26. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
27. A white trivalent metallic element.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
31. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
34. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
36. God of wealth and love.
38. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
40. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
41. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
42. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
45. A licensed medical practitioner.
46. Informal terms for a difficult situation.
47. The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.
48. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
|
