1. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
4. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
8. A decree that prohibits something.
11. A member of the Dravidian people living in southeastern India.
12. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
13. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
14. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
15. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
17. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
18. Obvious and dull.
20. Psychoactive substance present in marijuana.
21. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
22. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
24. In bed.
26. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
28. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
29. One thousand grams.
30. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
32. (sports) The chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.
34. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
36. One million periods per second.
39. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
46. A doctor's degree in education.
47. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
48. The face of a timepiece.

1. Jordan's port.
2. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
3. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
4. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
5. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
6. An oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract.
7. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
8. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
9. Make less active or intense.
10. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
16. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
19. A descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point.
23. God of death.
25. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
27. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
35. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
37. A small cake leavened with yeast.
38. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
40. (informal) Of the highest quality.
41. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
42. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
43. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
44. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
45. A doctor's degree in religion.