1. Used as a food additive to enhance flavor
4. Supervises interstate commerce
7. In a way, medicined
12. Military mailbox
13. Sign language
14. Foots
15. African shirt
17. Jan __, Dutch painter
18. Buddy
19. A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
21. They __
22. Transfer property
24. "The Tiffany Network"
25. Humanistic discipline
26. Dekalitre
27. Unification
29. "Guinea pig"
31. American state
35. The light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball
37. Indicates near
38. Sigh of relief
41. Distress signal
42. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers
43. Lubricate
44. Kilo yard, abbr.
45. More (Spanish)
46. A citizen of Iran
48. Visualize
52. Goddesses
53. Arrived extinct
54. Father
55. Exploiters
56. Auricle 57. Your consciousness of your own identity
2. Resort
3. Story of Christ's life and teachings
4. To be unsuccessful
5. Expression of disappointment
6. Ascents
7. Phonograph recording
8. Annual grass of Europe and N Africa
9. Spread over
10. Film critic Roger _____
11. Eats at a restaurant
16. Possessed
22. Insecticide
23. Supplement with difficulty
24. A gesture of respectful greeting, for women
25. A collection of anecdotes about a person or place
27. Amount charged
28. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm
30. Engineering company
32. By the ocean
33. Kilometers per hour
36. A salt or ester of hydriodic acid
38. Thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game
39. Employs
40. Fill with high spirits
42. ___ Bumstead, Blondie's husband
44. Any of several candies
45. Picasso's mistress
47. Neither
49. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand
50. Annoy constantly
51. Tokyo