ACROSS
1. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
4. Speaking a Slavic language.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
13. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
14. French novelist.
15. A radioactive transuranic element.
17. Informal terms for a mother.
18. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
21. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
23. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
24. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
27. The cry made by sheep.
30. Felt hat with a creased crown.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
43. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
46. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
47. A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court.
48. German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants.
49. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
50. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
51. An informal term for a father.
52. (used of animals especially a horse) Of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1.
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1. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
2. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
3. Indigo bush.
4. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug.
5. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
6. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
7. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
8. Before noon.
9. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
10. The act of scanning.
16. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
19. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
20. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
22. Type genus of the Phocidae.
25. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
26. A light touch or stroke.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
36. In bed.
37. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
38. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
39. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
40. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
41. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
44. An honorary degree in science.
45. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
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