1. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
4. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
8. Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.
11. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
12. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
13. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
14. An accidental happening.
15. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
17. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
18. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
20. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
21. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
30. Tag the base runner to get him out.
33. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
35. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
37. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
38. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
40. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
42. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
46. An awkward stupid person.
48. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
51. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
52. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
53. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
54. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
55. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
56. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.

1. United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935).
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. Someone who wastes time.
4. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.
5. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
6. An informal term for a father.
7. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
8. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
9. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
10. Not only so, but.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
19. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
22. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
24. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
25. A small cake leavened with yeast.
27. A doctor's degree in optometry.
28. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
31. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
32. A bachelor's degree in religion.
34. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
36. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
39. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
40. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
41. Common Indian weaverbird.
43. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
44. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
45. A coffin along with its stand.
47. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
49. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
50. A flexible container with a single opening.
51. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.