1. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
4. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
12. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
15. A local computer network for communication between computers.
16. Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.
17. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
18. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
20. The space between two lines or planes that intersect.
21. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
22. South African term for `boss'.
25. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
28. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
30. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
36. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
37. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
39. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. The compass point that is one point north of due west.
43. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
44. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
49. The cry made by sheep.
50. Uneaten and saved for eating later.
54. A public promotion of some product or service.
55. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
60. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
62. Tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials.
66. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
67. Mildly laxative n.
70. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
71. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
72. Someone who attacks in search of booty.
73. A city in the European part of Russia.
74. The capital and largest city of Japan.
75. Oldest known reptiles.
76. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.

1. Loose or flaccid body fat.
2. Fallow deer.
3. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
4. A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.
5. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
6. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion.
7. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
8. Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted.
9. English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954).
10. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
11. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
12. A telegram sent abroad.
13. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
14. English monk and scholar (672-735).
19. A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful).
23. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
24. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
26. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
29. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
31. (of the more skilled contestants) Selectively arranged in the draw for position a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds.
32. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
33. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
34. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
35. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
38. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.
40. A unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound.
45. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
46. A self-replicating protein molecule that occupies a fixed place on a chromosome.
47. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
48. A public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes.
51. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
52. Enclosed in a basin.
53. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.
56. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
57. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
58. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
59. (Greek mythology) King of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus.
61. In bed.
63. The twelfth month of the civil year.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
65. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
68. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
69. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed.