| ACROSS
1. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
5. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
8. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
11. A Hindu prince or king in India.
12. Used of a single unit or thing.
13. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
16. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
17. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. The last (12th) month of the year.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
26. A genus of Ploceidae.
30. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
33. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
36. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
38. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
39. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
42. The sixth month of the civil year.
46. The cry made by sheep.
47. A dry cold north wind in SE France.
48. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
49. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
50. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
51. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
52. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
|
DOWN
1. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
2. Offering fun and gaiety.
3. Slightly open.
4. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
7. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
8. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
9. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
10. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
18. A public promotion of some product or service.
19. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
20. A master's degree in business.
22. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
27. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
28. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share.
31. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
34. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.
35. Lower in esteem.
36. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
37. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
40. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.
41. Material used to daub walls.
43. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
44. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
45. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
|
