1. In or of the month preceding the present one.
4. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
8. A light touch or stroke.
11. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
12. The noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash adv.
13. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
14. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
15. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
16. Tag the base runner to get him out.
17. Cause to be attached.
20. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
21. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
24. Soreness and warmth caused by friction.
25. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
27. In or relating to or obtained from urine.
29. (of tempo) Leisurely n.
33. Of or resembling algae.
37. A quantity of no importance.
38. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
39. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
42. Sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce.
43. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
44. The cry made by sheep.
45. Towards the side away from the wind.
46. An awkward stupid person.
47. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
48. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.

1. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
2. (of tempo) Slow adv.
3. Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants.
4. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
5. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
6. Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.
7. A doctor's degree in preventive medicine.
8. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
9. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
10. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
18. By bad luck.
19. A bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.
22. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
26. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
28. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
30. The vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof.
31. Person who does no work.
32. Of or related to or derived from oats.
34. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
35. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
41. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.