1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
4. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
8. The compass point that is one point east of due south.
11. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
12. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
13. A pass between mountain peaks.
14. The basic unit of money in Iran.
16. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
20. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
22. An adherent of any branch of Taoism.
24. Short and fat.
28. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
29. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
32. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
34. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
37. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
38. Distant in either space or time.
39. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
44. Inquire about.
45. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
46. By bad luck.
47. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

1. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
2. A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall.
3. Jordan's port.
4. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
5. 10 grams.
6. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
7. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Reticulum and Pictor.
8. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
9. A wine bottle made of leather.
10. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
15. Immature of its kind.
17. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
19. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
21. A state in New England.
23. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin.
26. The cry made by sheep.
27. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
30. Squash bugs.
31. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
33. Absent without permission.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
40. An associate degree in applied science.
41. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
42. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
43. Informal terms for a mother.