| ACROSS
1. The unit of frequency.
4. An enclosed space.
7. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. A rapid bustling commotion.
13. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
14. A master's degree in business.
15. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
16. God of love and erotic desire.
17. A genus of Ploceidae.
19. (informal) Of the highest quality.
21. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
22. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
24. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
25. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
28. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
30. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
31. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
32. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
33. One of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills.
37. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
41. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
43. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
44. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
45. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China.
48. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
49. A doctor's degree in education.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
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1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
4. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
5. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
6. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
7. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
8. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
9. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
10. A social club for male undergraduates.
18. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
20. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
23. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
27. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
34. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
35. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
36. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
38. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
39. In bed.
40. South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers.
42. A light touch or stroke.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
46. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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