1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. The general activity of selling.
8. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
11. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
12. Advanced in years.
13. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
14. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.
15. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.
16. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
17. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
19. A state in northwestern North America.
21. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
25. A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
31. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
32. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
35. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
43. (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) Electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line.
46. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
47. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
50. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
51. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
52. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
53. Someone who is morally reprehensible.

1. A city in northern India.
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. A byproduct of inflammation.
4. An enclosed space.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
7. A doctor's degree in education.
8. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
22. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
23. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
24. An informal term for a father.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. A young woman making her debut into society.
34. A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering.
37. Balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine.
38. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
41. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
42. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
44. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
45. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
49. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.