1. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
8. Inquire about.
11. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
12. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
13. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
14. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
15. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
16. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
17. A garment worn by women in ancient Greece.
21. Lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down v 1.
22. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
23. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
28. (informal) Exceptionally good.
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
37. 100 thebe equal 1 pula.
40. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
42. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
45. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
46. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
48. A Loloish language.
49. An electrically charged particle.
50. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
51. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
52. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

1. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
2. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
3. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
4. Great coolness and composure under strain.
5. By bad luck.
6. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
7. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. God of love and erotic desire.
18. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
19. Towards the side away from the wind.
20. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
24. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
29. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. (of reproduction) Not involving the fusion of male and female gametes reproduction".
32. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
34. A genus of bee.
35. Any cycad of the genus Dioon.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
39. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped.
43. A tight-fitting headdress.
44. Used of a single unit or thing.
47. A person forced to flee from home or country.