1. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
5. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
7. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
11. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
12. A Russian river.
13. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
14. Large high frilly cap with a full crown.
16. A New England state.
17. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
18. An associate degree in nursing.
19. A sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow).
21. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
25. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
26. An island of Hawaii northwest of Oahu.
30. A word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system.
31. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
32. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. The act of scanning.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
46. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
47. A port in southwestern Scotland.
49. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.
50. In or of the month preceding the present one.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
53. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.

1. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
2. Extremely robust.
3. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
4. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. A yellow quartz.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
10. German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy.
15. A genus of Platalea.
20. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
22. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
23. The month following July and preceding September.
24. The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
28. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
34. Any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group.
35. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
39. A primeval personification of air and breath.
40. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
42. The products of human creativity.
44. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
48. A public promotion of some product or service.
49. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.