1. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
4. A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid.
8. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
11. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
13. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
14. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
15. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
16. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
17. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
19. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
21. A light touch or stroke.
24. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
25. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
27. An oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde.
31. A public promotion of some product or service.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
34. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
35. A flexible container with a single opening.
37. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
38. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
43. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
48. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
49. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
50. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
51. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
52. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
53. Having undesirable or negative qualities.

1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
5. An awkward stupid person.
6. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
7. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
8. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
9. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
10. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
20. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
22. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
23. A small cake leavened with yeast.
26. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
28. 10 grams.
29. A Russian river.
30. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
33. A large fleet.
36. Lower in esteem.
40. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
41. Common Indian weaverbird.
42. A small nail.
44. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
46. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
47. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
48. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.