1. The act of scanning.
5. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
7. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
11. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
12. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
13. The basic unit of money in Ethiopia.
14. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
15. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
16. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
17. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
18. In bed.
21. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
25. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
27. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
28. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
33. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
37. Jordan's port.
40. Being five more than one hundred fifty.
41. The closing section of a musical composition.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
47. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
48. The month following October and preceding December.
49. Not only so, but.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

1. Marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction.
2. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
3. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
4. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
5. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
8. Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
19. A flexible container with a single opening.
20. A bottle with a stopper.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
23. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
24. A public promotion of some product or service.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. Extremely pleasing.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Type genus of the Gavidae.
32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
34. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
35. A compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms.
36. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
38. Swiss painter influenced by Kandinsky (1879-1940).
39. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
42. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
43. A light touch or stroke.
46. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.