1. An organization of United States war veterans.
4. The stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle.
12. Considerate and solicitous care.
15. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
16. A mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
17. An affirmative.
18. Pale yellow seedless grape used for raisins and wine.
20. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
22. Someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection.
23. A source of materials to nourish the body.
25. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
30. Cause to suffer.
34. Any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers.
38. A jurist who interprets Muslim law.
39. A wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish.
40. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
42. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
43. Step on it.
46. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
47. A mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving.
50. A genus of herbs of the family Cruciferae.
53. Burst or split open, as of flowers and seeds when releasing pollen or seeds.
55. Add to the very end.
56. A support or foundation.
59. Lower in esteem.
62. Type genus of the Amiidae.
64. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
68. Something that remunerates.
69. Terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia.
73. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
74. A reformed prostitute.
76. Having much flesh (especially fat).
77. The residue that remains when something is burned.
78. The state of being elsewhere than in particular place.
79. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.

1. A piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face.
2. Any light downy material.
3. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs.
4. Slightly open.
5. Small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope.
6. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
7. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
8. (folklore) A small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings.
9. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
10. The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862).
11. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
12. A port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea.
13. Lacking excess flesh.
14. Having the slant of a bevel.
19. A river of central Italy.
21. Permeate or impregnate.
24. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
26. A public promotion of some product or service.
27. Opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded.
28. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
29. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
31. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air.
32. Russian Soviet leader.
33. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
35. Liquid excretory product.
36. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
41. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
45. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
48. A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval).
49. A tumor of bone tissue.
51. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
52. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
54. Half the width of an em.
57. An informal term for a father.
58. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
60. South African term for `boss'.
61. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
63. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
65. (British slang) Cafe.
66. Type genus of the Anatidae.
67. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
70. The 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
71. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
72. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
75. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.