1. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
5. A town in northern Egypt.
12. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
15. An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel.
16. A treeless grassy plain.
17. (informal) Of the highest quality.
18. One of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse.
19. Income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments.
20. Someone with a promising future.
22. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
24. (physics and chemistry) The smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element.
25. A person who evokes boredom.
26. Vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression.
28. Of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus.
31. Genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers.
32. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
33. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
34. Be going to.
38. The capital of Croatia.
42. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
43. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
44. (Mexican) Ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans.
46. (usually preceded by `in') A detail or point.
50. Myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil.
52. One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.
54. (psychology) An urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object.
56. Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees.
60. Without generating heat.
65. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order.
66. The audible part of a transmitted signal.
69. A unit of pressure.
70. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
71. The domain controlled by an emir.
73. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
74. Type genus of the Aceraceae.
75. Worn until no longer useful.
76. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.

1. A three-tone Chadic language.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
4. Clothing for the hands.
5. A painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments.
6. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
7. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
8. Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula.
9. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
10. A state in New England.
11. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
12. A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.
13. Sour or bitter in taste.
14. Small genus of hairy herbs with yellow flowers.
21. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
23. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
27. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
29. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
30. Free and relaxed in manner.
35. The sixth month of the civil year.
36. Inventory accounting in which the most recently acquired items are assumed to be the first sold.
37. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
39. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
40. A point located with respect to surface features of some region.
41. Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount.
45. A blanket that is used as a cloak or shawl.
47. Engaged in as a pastime.
48. Large tree of Trinidad and Guyana having odd-pinnate leaves and violet-scented axillary racemes of yellow flowers and long smooth pods.
49. A river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea.
51. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
53. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Ansaid) that is administered only orally.
55. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
57. Related on the mother's side.
58. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
59. A mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high).
61. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
62. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
63. The piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located).
64. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
67. Goddess of fate.
68. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
72. Informal terms for a mother.