Complete Clue List
Across
1. Sailor who introduced long-term colonization of Europeans to the Western Hemisphere
8. 1986 Peter Gabriel album, invoking Anne Sexton and Stanley Milgram
10. Oxford endowment established by Africa developer Cecil Rhodes (init.)
12. Demon of Japanese folklore
13. Balkan state which gained its independence in 1912
14. Rank in judo
15. Nationality of the Gurkhas
17. ___ Peron, better known as "Evita"
18. Chinese dynasty that built the Great Wall
19. Site of 1880s Conference that partitioned Africa
21. South African Nobel Peace Prize winner: Desmond ____
24. Former Commonwealth of Ceylon: ___ Lanka
25. Adolf Hitler's father
26. Mystical precursor to chemistry
29. Ingredient for witches in "Macbeth": "Eye of ____"
31. Internet domain code for Turkmenistan
32. Union plan to blockade the Confederacy in US Civil War
34. State of John Wayne's birth
35. Religion founded in Arabia in the seventh century CE
36. Network for updating Red Hat Linux software
37. Language, in Rome, Madrid, or Lisbon
39. Term for US migrant in the 1930s
42. Main character of Old Russian epic
44. Mobile hospitals in the US Army; basis for popular TV show
45. Cambodian dictator: ___ Pot
46. Scandanavian language that is not Indo-European
47. City in Papua New Guinea; Amelia Earhart's last known stop
48. Work, in Latin
49. Idiomatic Canadian way of ending sentences (but nobody I know actually says this)
51. Not the beginning, but the ___
52. Blood antigen that humans share with monkeys (abbr.)
53. Traditionally nomadic people of Northern Scandanavia, also known as Laplanders
54. First queen of Carthage. Also sings "Thank You"
Down
1. Eastern capital of the Roman Empire; now Istanbul
2. How many monarchs ruled England between 1838 and 1900
3. Muhammad Ali nickname: The Louisville ___
4. Central African empire united by Sundiata in the 1200s
5. Often done to Margaritas in the US
6. Global consortium of Bible publishers (abbr.)
7. Four-time Prime Minister of Lebanon; founder of Middle East Airlines
8. ___ _____ Burton, translator of "Arabian Nights" and "Kama Sutra" (includes title)
9. Home of Green Lantern's superiors
10. Hebrew for "Rabbi", or Toyota SUV
11. Naga form in Hindu cosmology
14. Levi Strauss' medium
16. Medieval Queen Consort of both France and England: Eleanor of _____
20. Town in Tyrol, Austria
22. Scholars of Islam
23. How to get a nonfunctioning car to the garage
27. John Maynard Keynes' field
28. Israelli memorial to the Holocaust (2 words)
30. Turkish peninsula; site of World War I battle and defining moment in Australian-New Zealand history
33. X, pronounced in Greek
37. According to Thomas Cahill, they saved Western Civilization
38. Roberto Duran's plea of surrender: "No ___"
40. Zen paradox
41. Administrative region containing Paris: ___ ___ France (2 words)
43. Traditional Japanese bath
50. Hello, for short