1. Distress signal
4. Very fast airplane
7. Condiment
12. Helps little firms
13. Go quickly
14. Talent or ability
15. Candidates
17. Frogs, toads, tree toads
18. Have already done
19. A way to create from raw material
21. Take to one's heels
22. A sword similar to a foil
24. 3rd person female possessive
25. Pats
26. A small monetary unit of Japan
27. Gambling palace
29. Clergyman
31. Drunk
35. Humiliated
37. Scottish for "Own"
38. Free from danger
41. Root mean square (abbrev.)
42. Take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption
43. Individual Retirement Account
44. Italian for "Six"
45. Shoshonean
46. City in central Rumania
48. Whitish antlike insect that feeds on wood
52. Sour or bitter in taste
53. Records electric currents of the heart
54. Born
55. Birds
56. Institute legal proceedings against
57. Prevent from speaking
2. Japanese sash
3. Depresses
4. Small storage building
5. Title of respect
6. Endocrine gland
7. Card game
8. Advice columnist ___ Landers
9. Actress _____ Dern
10. Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
11. Members of an ethnic group in Ghana
16. Become deceased
22. Clairvoyance or precognition
23. Round globular seed
24. Capital of Zimbabwe
25. Dutch painter Gerard ___
27. Adult male swan
28. A sign of assent, salutation, or command
30. Scottish for "To"
32. Attaching metal plates to horses hooves
33. Pinna
34. Cotillion attendee
38. A plant fiber used for making rope
39. Northern Chilean seaport
40. Latin for "Craftsman"
42. Short Term Memory
44. Underwater vessels
45. A strong spontaneous and irrational motivation
47. Annoy
49. Emergency Care Unit
50. Beverage iced in the United States
51. Records electric currents generated by the brain