1. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school.
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
11. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
12. (informal) Of the highest quality.
13. The sixth month of the civil year.
14. A member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia.
16. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
17. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
18. The cry made by sheep.
21. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
22. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
24. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
26. Jordan's port.
29. The capital of Croatia.
31. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
32. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
34. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
35. Russian country house.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
41. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
43. An informal term for a father.
44. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
45. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
48. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
50. Being one more than two.
51. An indistinct shapeless form.
54. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
55. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
56. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
57. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

1. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
2. Leafless East Indian vine.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
6. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
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. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
15. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
19. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
20. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
23. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. Unknown god.
28. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
30. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
33. An American doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
39. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
40. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
42. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
46. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
47. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
48. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
49. United States architect (born in China in 1917).
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
53. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.