1. A trivial lie.
4. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
11. A formal dance held for a school class toward the end of the academic year.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. Become steeper.
17. Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis.
18. Ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side.
19. Follower of Rastafarianism.
20. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
21. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
22. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
24. Formed or united into a whole.
27. The quantity contained in a keg.
28. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
29. A row of unravelled stitches.
33. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
35. (Judaism) A Jewish harvest festival.
39. Large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds.
42. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
43. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source.
45. Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds.
47. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
48. A slight amount or degree of difference.
49. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. State in northeastern India.
54. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
56. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
58. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
59. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
62. A major waterfall in southern Africa.
64. A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs.
65. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
69. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
72. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
73. Wet through and through.
74. The cry made by sheep.
75. The act of receiving.
79. A small cake leavened with yeast.
80. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
81. Lacking variety.
83. A decree that prohibits something.
84. An informal term for a father.
85. Resembling a bladder.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
2. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
3. Serving as or forming a base.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
5. A New England state.
6. Suggestive of the supernatural.
7. A rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide.
8. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
9. A pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished.
10. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
11. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
12. (the feminine of raja) A Hindu princess or the wife of a raja.
13. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
14. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
23. A state in northwestern North America.
25. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
26. The capital of Switzerland.
30. A large fleet.
31. Included seven times in every 19 years.
32. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
37. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
38. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt.
40. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
41. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
44. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
50. The upper end of a bitt.
51. Fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies.
53. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
55. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
57. United States politician and orator (1782-1817).
60. A sweet innocent baby.
61. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
63. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
66. Jordan's port.
67. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
68. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
70. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
71. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing.
76. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
77. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
78. Dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top.
82. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.