1. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
4. An elaborate song for solo voice.
8. A light touch or stroke.
11. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
12. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir and avenger of Balder.
13. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
14. A beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water.
15. Slightly open.
16. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
20. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
22. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
24. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
26. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian.
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
30. Suggestive of the supernatural.
31. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.
32. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
35. Two items of the same kind.
39. Not only so, but.
40. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
42. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
45. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
46. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
47. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
48. South African term for `boss'.

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. A genus of Indriidae.
5. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
6. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
7. Channel into a new direction.
8. A licensed medical practitioner.
9. Jordan's port.
10. Obvious and dull.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
21. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
23. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
25. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
29. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
33. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
34. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
36. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
37. African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos.
38. A member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico.
41. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
43. Before noon.
44. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
45. Informal terms for a mother.