1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. A light touch or stroke.
7. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
11. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
12. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four strings.
13. An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).
14. 10 hao equal 1 dong.
15. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
17. The cry made by sheep.
18. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
20. An associate degree in applied science.
21. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
22. A telegram sent abroad.
24. A drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine.
28. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
31. 1/10 gram.
33. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
40. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
42. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
47. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. On or toward the lee.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
3. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
4. A clay pipe with a short stem.
5. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
6. The capital of Switzerland.
7. A state in northwestern North America.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
10. Lower in esteem.
16. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
19. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
27. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes.
29. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
32. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
34. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
35. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
36. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
37. Slightly open.
38. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
39. A small cake leavened with yeast.
41. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
43. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.