1. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
4. Health care for the aged.
12. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
15. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
16. A card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
20. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
21. Used in combination to denote the middle.
22. Distant in either space or time.
23. A slender double-reed instrument.
25. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
33. Become louder.
35. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
38. Void of thought or knowledge.
41. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
42. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
44. The square of a body of any size of type.
45. That is to say.
46. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
48. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
53. American novelist (1909-1955).
54. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
56. Any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having tulip-shaped flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals.
58. Any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs).
60. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
61. Short and thick.
62. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
68. Bottle that has a narrow neck.
71. Slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses.
72. On or to the other side of a page.
75. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
76. Wild and domestic cattle.
77. The qualities of a hero or heroine.
78. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
79. In or of the month preceding the present one.
80. Someone who listens attentively.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. Beside one another in a row or rank.
3. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
4. A master's degree in business.
5. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
6. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.
7. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
8. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
9. (music) A short recitative that is melodic but is not an aria.
10. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
11. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
12. The shape of a bell.
13. (anatomy) Of or relating to the ilium.
14. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
19. City in Sudan.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
29. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
31. A lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg.
32. Either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder.
34. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
37. Polish filmmaker (born in 1929).
39. The most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai).
40. The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.
43. South African term for `boss'.
47. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
49. A public promotion of some product or service.
50. Spend time badly or unwisely.
51. Of or relating to or involving an area.
52. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
55. A person who tries to bluff other people.
57. A city in Veneto.
59. A measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test.
63. Absent without permission.
64. In or of the present month.
65. Endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys.
66. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
67. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
69. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
70. God of love and erotic desire.
73. A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production.
74. (informal) Of the highest quality.