1. (computer science) The rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem).
4. The state of owing money.
8. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
13. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
14. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
15. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
16. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
21. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
24. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
25. The face or front of a building.
28. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
30. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
32. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
37. Before noon.
38. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
40. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
41. A small vessel for travel on water.
44. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
49. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
50. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
52. The cry made by sheep.
53. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
54. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
55. The sign language used in the United States.

1. Divulge information or secrets.
2. (obstetrics) The number of live-born children a woman has delivered.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
5. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
6. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
7. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.
8. Anthropologist and linguist.
9. A university town in east central Maine on the Penobscot River north of Bangor.
10. Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity.
18. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
22. A public promotion of some product or service.
23. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
26. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
31. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
33. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
35. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
39. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
40. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
42. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
43. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
45. The month following July and preceding September.
46. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
47. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
48. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
51. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.