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1. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
5. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. God of fire.
12. A decree that prohibits something.
13. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
14. An endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it v 1.
15. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
17. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
21. With no effort to conceal.
25. A young woman making her debut into society.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
29. A small cake leavened with yeast.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. Informal terms for a mother.
38. A flexible container with a single opening.
40. The content of cognition.
42. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
46. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
47. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
48. Not easy.
50. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
51. A master's degree in theology.
52. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
2. Armor plate that protects the chest.
3. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
4. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
5. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
6. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. A large fleet.
9. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
16. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
19. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
20. Somewhat ill or prone to illness.
22. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
23. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
30. A French abbot.
32. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
35. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
37. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. Fallow deer.
43. (music) The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.
44. The sixth day of the week.
45. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
49. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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