1. Own (Scottish)
4. Liquid waste or sewage
8. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits
12. Mandela's party
13. Long, accompanied song
14. Roman wicker receptacle for funeral processions
15. Well read
17. Electronic counter-countermeasures
18. In a way, runs away
19. One thousand
21. Bird genus
23. Any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup
26. Talk back
29. Curioes
31. Slice
32. Eduard __, Czechoslovakian President
33. Food energy unit
34. Tablets
36. Medium-sized mackerel
37. Discharge from army (abbrev.)
38. Flower
40. Conductance units
42. Recently
46. Take to one's heels
48. Malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues
50. German courtesy title
51. Stake
52. Deface
53. Behave affectedly in order to impress others
54. Drives
55. Distant
2. A blue dye
3. Outside
4. Insert mark
5. Expungings
6. Be seated
7. Tai
8. Wildcat of C amd S America
9. Candy
10. Monetary unit
16. Epic
20. Egyptian goddess
22. More lucid
24. Miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation, sport, etc.
25. National capital
26. Any of several carangid fishes
27. French river
28. Difficulties in speaking
30. Fixed in one's purpose
35. Cling
36. Badgers company
39. Behalfs
41. Strip
43. TV award
44. Chinese dynasty
45. A fine cord of twisted fibers used in sewing and weaving
46. Frictional horsepower
47. A zodiacal constellation in N hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo
49. The compass point midway between northeast and east