1. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions
4. Gentle
8. Rodents
12. Nurse-patient relation
13. Type genus of the Amiidae
14. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
15. More decorous
17. ____ off = dismiss angrily
18. Extinct birds
19. About the ear
21. A domed or vaulted recess
23. US writer, Joyce Carol _____
26. Thick piece of something
29. Having a sharp cutting edge
31. Chest muscle (slang)
32. Motor lodge
33. V
34. Flowers
36. Session (abbrev.)
37. Infections
38. Tear down
40. Woody fiber
42. Most scarce
46. Arabian sultanate
48. Telephone assistant
50. Delicacy (archaic)
51. Shag rugs
52. Provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
53. Magnoliopsid genus
54. Blue blood
55. Possessed
2. Margarine
3. Breezed through
4. Starchy food made of dried orchid tubers
5. Neglect
6. Expresses distaste, disapproval
7. Tropical starchy tuberous root
8. Cacoethes
9. No longer in effect or use
10. Cost, Insurance and Freight
16. Ancient kingdom near Dead Sea
20. Work hard
22. Go in
24. Adult females
25. Perceives
26. Resorts
27. Tonight Show host
28. Embitter
30. About Gaius Julius Caesar
32. Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
36. Body fluids
39. Athapaskan language
41. Pressure unit
43. A way to print
44. A crane
45. Stepped on
46. S American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
47. A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
49. Monetary unit