1. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
4. An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes.
11. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
15. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
16. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
19. United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931).
21. Fairly small terrestrial ferns of tropical America.
23. One of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons.
25. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
28. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
31. Be iridescent.
35. Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government.
38. Celestial shepherd god.
39. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
41. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
46. Jordan's port.
49. Of or relating to a seizure or convulsion.
50. Having a mental age of three to seven years.
52. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
55. Being one more than ten.
56. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
57. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
59. An informal term for a father.
61. Covered or protected with or as if with a case.
65. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
68. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus).
71. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
72. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
75. Extremely pleasing.
76. A state in southwestern Germany famous for its beer.
78. A French abbot.
79. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
80. An early French settler in the Maritimes.
81. Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.

1. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
2. Type genus of the Sulidae.
3. Deprive (infants) of mother's milk.
4. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
5. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
6. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
7. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
8. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
9. A mountain peak in central Washington.
10. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
11. A slipper that is soft and wool (for babies).
12. In addition.
13. Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground.
14. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
20. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
22. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
26. An informal conversation.
27. A Loloish language.
29. A large and stately mansion.
30. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
32. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
33. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
34. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
36. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
37. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
40. A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
42. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
43. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
47. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
51. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
53. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
54. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
58. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
60. Jordan's port.
62. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
63. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
64. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
66. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
67. The capital of Western Samoa.
69. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
70. The nest of a squirrel.
73. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
74. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
77. A radioactive element of the actinide series.