1  Electronic helper just for you

 4  "Big Brother" host Julie ---

 8  Key

12 Alliance of some former Soviet countries

13 "Battle Hymn of the Republic" writer

14 Diamond or Armstrong

15 Some foreign Government heads

16 Assist

17 Consider

18 Software menu option

20 Headcase

22 Presentations to potential customers

24 Rabbles

25 Are you out ---? (Poker)

26 Uncivilized

30 Pie containers

31 Noah's boat

32 Mathematician --- Descartes

33 Sections

35 South African currency

36 Fine

37 Untrue

38 Half a dime

41 "Della and the Dealer" singer --- Axton

42 Connecticut university

43 "Prince ---", Borodin opera

45 Possess

48 Tree with a partridge at Christmas

49 Drawn tight

50 Sports official

51 Boulder and Hoover

52 Yesteryear

53 Moderately dry

 1  Angel dust

 2  Slow-witted

 3  Taking on

 4  Punched-out bits of card

 5  Drifter

 6  Ram's dam

 7  E.g. N B C and C B S

 8  Dishevelled

 9  Sybil

10 Made up a story

11 Tickle Me toy

19 Those who have successfully given up

21 Drain away

22 Seen over i and j

23 4th largest Great Lake

24 Oscar-winning Borgnine film of 1955

26 Bromide

27 Property salesmen

28 Overnight stops

29 Surrender

34 Scrape

37 Strong suit

38 Big Apple cops

39 UN nuclear watchdog

40 Buck

41 Time of day

44 Federal fiscal watchdog

46 The --- small hours

47 N Y Giants' division