| ACROSS
1. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
5. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
8. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
11. Little known Kamarupan languages.
12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. Informal terms for a mother.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
21. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
23. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
24. An audiotape recording of sound.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
33. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
34. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.
36. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
40. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
45. A flexible container with a single opening.
47. A periodic paperback publication.
48. Slightly open.
50. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
52. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
53. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
54. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
55. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
|
DOWN
1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. In bed.
3. A hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element.
4. Relating to or used in or intended for trade or commerce.
5. 1/1000 gram.
6. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
7. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. Rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus.
27. 16 ounces.
28. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
30. The month following January and preceding March.
32. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
37. A Hindu prince or king in India.
38. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
39. A French abbot.
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. Advanced in years.
46. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
51. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
|
