1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
5. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
8. Any of various units of capacity.
11. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
12. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
13. Towards the side away from the wind.
14. Type genus of the Pezizaceae.
17. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
19. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
20. The quantity contained in a keg.
21. (informal) Of the highest quality.
22. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
24. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
31. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
34. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
44. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
45. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
46. A Loloish language.
47. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.
48. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
49. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
50. Noisy talk.

1. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
2. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.
3. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
4. A compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
7. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
8. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
9. English monk and scholar (672-735).
10. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
15. The capital of Croatia.
16. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
18. An informal term for a father.
23. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
25. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
28. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
30. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
32. Type genus of the Percidae.
33. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. An association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
38. English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829).
39. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
40. (British) An informer or spy working for the police.
42. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
43. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.