Today’s Crossword:

1. Midway between east and southeast

4. Sun up in New York

7. Japanese honorific

8. Czech name for Prague

10. Ochocinco’s first name

12. Steep cliffs (Hawaiian)

13. Scots word for “home”

14. Upper class young woman (abbr.)

16. Monetary unit of Albania

17. Raise

19. Drain of resources

20. Uncultured, clumsy persons

21. Hikers use them

25. Retrospective analysis (military)

26. Tibetan form of chanting

27. Influential European statesman

29. Soluble ribonucleic acid

30. Monetary unit of Romania

31. Round green vegetable

32. Well acquainted with

39. Ribosomal ribonucleic acid

41. Basics

42. “The Godfather” actress Keaton

43. Snakelike fish

44. Tall deciduous tree

45. Russian river

46. Long Balkans river

48. Ancient Greek coin

49. Senegal’s capital

50. Unwell

51. Snout

52. Low bank or reef of coral

CLUES DOWN

1. Abstain from

2. Vast desert in North Africa

3. Cover the crown of a tooth

4. A major division of geological time

5. Urban center

6. Crook

8. Parts per billion (abbr.)

9. Questions

11. A pack of 52 playing cards

14. Recording of sound

15. Pithy saying

18. Atomic #22

19. Soviet Socialist Republic

20. Plant with ridged seedpods

22. Innate

23. Investigative body for Congress (abbr.)

24. Soda receptacle

27. Spanish stew: __ podrida

28. Viet Cong offensive

29. Large body of water

31. Beginning military rank

32. Dissimilar

33. Counteroffensive system (abbr.)

34. Shows who you are

35. Chinese dynasty

36. Type of verse

37. African nation

38. Quite

39. Former Bucks star Michael

40. Showed again

44. Body part

47. Steal