3: Grandmother, affectionately
6: These can be checkered
20: Like a dangerous wire
21: Skin designs, for short
24: Whistle-blowers, of a sort
26: Deceitfully altering, as facts
30: Cause of a Macy's riot?
35: Lacking, along the Loire
42: Scrapes and scratches
44: It's marked with a slash
47: Chamber music instrument
48: Trudge, as through sludge
49: Object of pagan worship