1. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
5. Any of various units of capacity.
8. A light touch or stroke.
11. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
14. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
15. A signal transmitted along a narrow path.
17. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
18. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
20. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
23. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
24. A large fleet.
27. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
28. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
29. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
32. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
34. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
38. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
43. A branch of the Tai languages.
44. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
46. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
49. A master's degree in business.
50. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
51. A flexible container with a single opening.
52. Tag the base runner to get him out.
53. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
54. (informal) Of the highest quality.
55. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

1. Humble request for help.
2. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
3. A person's brother or sister.
4. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
5. A small cake leavened with yeast.
6. Offering little or no hope.
7. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
8. A Mid-Atlantic state.
9. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
10. (informal) Exceptionally good.
16. A master's degree in fine arts.
19. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
21. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
22. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
25. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
26. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. A state in northwestern North America.
31. Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. A genus of Lamnidae.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. Jordan's port.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
45. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
47. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
48. How long something has existed.