| ACROSS
1. The residue that remains when something is burned.
4. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
8. Of southern Europe.
11. A digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field.
12. Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.
13. An accountant certified by the state.
14. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
15. A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid.
16. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
17. A public promotion of some product or service.
20. Go on board.
23. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
26. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
29. A kind of polyester fabric.
31. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.
33. The longest division of geological time.
37. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
40. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
43. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
44. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
46. A master's degree in business.
48. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
49. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
50. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
|
DOWN
1. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
2. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
3. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
4. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
5. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
6. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
7. In or of the month preceding the present one.
8. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
9. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
10. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
18. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule.
19. A state in northwestern North America.
21. A decree that prohibits something.
22. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. The act of scanning.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
32. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
33. In or of the month preceding the present one.
34. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
35. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
36. Fallow deer.
38. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
41. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
47. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
|
