1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. Strong woody fibers obtained especially from the phloem of from various plants.
11. Taken or to be taken at random.
12. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
13. 4-wheeled motor vehicle.
14. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
15. A light touch or stroke.
16. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
17. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
24. Free from liquid or moisture.
25. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
27. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
29. The content of cognition.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
34. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
35. Before noon.
36. Common Indian weaverbird.
39. A small vessel for travel on water.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
47. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. Irritate or vex.
51. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
52. The sign language used in the United States.

1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. (informal) Exceptionally good.
3. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
9. Support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway.
10. The present time or age.
18. 1 species.
20. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
21. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
22. A state in midwestern United States.
23. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
31. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
33. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
37. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
38. Noisy talk.
40. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
41. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
43. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
44. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
45. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
46. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.