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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
7. Perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere.
11. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
12. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
13. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
14. A feeling of intense anger.
17. An associate degree in nursing.
18. Acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning.
20. To fix or set securely or deeply.
21. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
24. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
25. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
26. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
28. The month following January and preceding March.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
33. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
38. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
43. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
49. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
50. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
51. A boy or man.
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1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
2. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
3. A flexible container with a single opening.
4. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
7. A man who serves as a sailor.
8. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
9. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
10. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
15. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
16. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. A yellow quartz.
22. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
30. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
32. Fiddler crabs.
34. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
35. Make an etching of.
36. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
37. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
39. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
40. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
42. Tag the base runner to get him out.
47. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
48. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
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