1. A long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening.
5. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
11. A rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults.
15. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
16. The estate of a baron.
17. Soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired.
18. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
19. Of or relating to near the ear.
20. Any competition.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
24. Called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation.
29. A kind of sedan chair used in India.
35. (informal) Of the highest quality.
36. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
38. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
40. Any federal law-enforcement officer.
41. A narrow gorge with a stream running through it.
42. Earlier a god.
44. A city in south central California in the San Joaquin Valley.
47. Any plant disease in which the central part of a plant rots (especially in trees).
49. Make less active or intense.
51. A growth in strength or number or importance.
52. Chinese tea leaves that have been semi-fermented before being dried.
54. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
56. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
59. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
61. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery.
63. (linguistics) Belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.
67. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
68. Toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric.
71. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.
72. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
73. A headlong rush of people on a common impulse.
76. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
77. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
78. A great raja.
79. A rapid escape (as by criminals).

1. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
2. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
3. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
4. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
5. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
6. A state in the eastern United States.
7. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
8. A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers.
9. Black tropical American cuckoo.
10. An ancient city is southern Greece.
11. A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles.
12. Satisfy (thirst).
13. The rate of moving (especially walking or running).
14. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
22. The fine downy hair covering a human fetus.
23. An associate degree in nursing.
25. Included seven times in every 19 years.
26. A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses.
27. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
28. A person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow.
30. Sour or bitter in taste.
31. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
32. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
33. A thin membrane lining the closed cavities of the body.
34. Decisively defeated in combat.
37. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
39. (Judaism) A Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman.
43. A natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth.
45. A person of unquestioning obedience.
46. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
48. Relating to or having the characteristics of bees.
50. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
53. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
55. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
57. Type genus of the Soleidae.
58. (of language) Transparently clear.
60. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
62. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
64. Absent without permission.
65. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
66. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
69. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
70. An emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration.
74. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
75. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.