1. Measure of the US economy adopted in 1991. 4. Bubble shells.
12. Not reflecting light. 15. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
16. A river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York
and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New
York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into
Delaware Bay. 17. Title for a civil or military leader
(especially in Turkey). 18. African tree having an exceedingly
thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible
pulp called monkey bread. 20. Relating to or designed for or
using the singing voice. 21. The federal agency that insures
residential mortgages. 22. City in central Iran. 24. A rare
silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element. 26. A state of
southwestern India. 28. Empty rhetoric or insincere or
exaggerated talk. 31. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
33. The location of something surrounded by other things. 37.
Regional and archaic. 40. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent
metallic element. 41. The 1st letter of