1. A light touch or stroke.
4. English essayist (1775-1834).
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
12. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
13. A decree that prohibits something.
14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
16. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
17. An undergarment worn by women to support their breasts.
18. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
19. The superior of a group of nuns.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. The cry made by sheep.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
32. By bad luck.
34. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
36. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
37. (Babylonian) Father of the gods.
41. Noisy talk.
45. A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation.
47. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
50. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
51. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
53. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
54. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
4. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
5. The basic unit of money in Albania.
6. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
7. Jordan's port.
8. A French abbot.
9. Gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden bars supported on uprights.
10. Type genus of the Anatidae.
15. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
20. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
21. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
22. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
27. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
28. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
29. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
30. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
31. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
33. An internal representation of the world.
35. Common Indian weaverbird.
38. A quantity of no importance.
39. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
40. A state in northwestern North America.
42. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
43. A telephone connection.
44. God of love and erotic desire.
46. An enclosed space.
48. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
49. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.