| ACROSS
1. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
5. The cry made by sheep.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
14. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
17. An associate degree in applied science.
18. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
20. A public promotion of some product or service.
21. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
23. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
25. Fallow deer.
27. North American bluebirds.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
34. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
37. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
39. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
43. Oil palms.
46. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
47. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
48. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
51. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
52. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
53. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
54. A periodic paperback publication.
|
DOWN
1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
2. Largest known toad species.
3. Any seed plant yielding balsam.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
6. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
7. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. Marked by the reception of pay.
22. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
24. Considerate and solicitous care.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A state in midwestern United States.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
32. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
33. An informal term for a father.
35. Lower in esteem.
36. A master's degree in business.
38. On or toward the lee.
39. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
40. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
41. A quantity of no importance.
42. The dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia.
44. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
45. An enclosed space.
46. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
49. A state in New England.
50. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
|
