Spelling Bee Crossword 3

 1  Large extinct elephant (7)

 5   Swampy coniferous forest (5)

 6  Ladle or drinking vessel (5)

 9  Stuffed beef intestine (6)

11 Black (5)

12 Forced labor camps (5)

14 Noodles (7)

16  People of southern Russia and Ukraine (7)

18 Heavy draft horse, (7)

19 iIntense arctic snowstorm (5)

21 Musical instrument like a guitar (9)

24 Lively dance (5)

27 Drudge (5)

28 Freshwater whitefish (5)

29 "Ali ___ and the 40 Thieves" (4)

30 Communist Party offical (9)

31 Food made from cooked buckwheat (5)

32 Economic restructure or reform (11)

34 Treeless, frozen mountain tract (6)

37 Openness and transparency (8)

39 Loaf-shaped coffee cake (5)

40 Russian urn (7)

41 Winter wear (5)

42 Former secret-police organization (5)

43 Large Russian wolfhound (6)

44 Automaton (5)

 2  Bauble (9)

 4  Highly seasoned Polish sausage (8)

 5  Device producing controlled fusion reactions (7)

 7  Soviet artificial satellite (7)

 8  Organized massacre (6)

10 Deep orange-red color spice (7)

13 Migratory sturgeon (7)

15 Executive Russian government branch (7)

17  Communi st Party bureaucrat (11)

18 Alaskan Siberian semisubterranean house (8)

20 Central Asia tent (3)

22 Health care professional (8)

23 Tie (6)

24  Last period of Paleozoic era (7)

25 Dumpling stuffed with filling (5)

26 Old woman or grandmother (8)

27 native or inhabitant of Eurasia and Northern Asia (8)

33 The most important (8)

34 Men's Ukrainian folk dance (6)

35 Pitifully ineffectual, timid, or submissive (7)

36 Blook sucker (7)

37 Energetic Ukrainian dance (5)

38 Elected local, district, or national council (6)