1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. All the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins.
11. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
15. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
16. The official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body.
17. A town in north central Oklahoma.
18. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
20. Having a sole or soles especially as specified.
21. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.
22. Water snakes.
24. The money risked on a gamble.
26. A person who seeks the advice of a lawyer.
27. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
30. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
34. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
37. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
38. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
39. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
43. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
45. A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
46. Consistent with fact or reality.
48. Noisy talk.
49. (archaic) Of persons.
52. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
54. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
55. A small flag used by surveyors or soldiers to mark a position.
57. Assign a new name to.
59. Port city on Atlantic coast.
61. Something that is a source of danger.
65. Having unattractive thinness.
69. An authoritative person who divines the future.
72. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
73. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
74. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.
76. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
77. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. Tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute.
79. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

1. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
2. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
3. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
4. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
5. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
6. A bachelor's degree in naval science.
7. An isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time.
8. The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
9. Any of several bog orchids of the genus Arethusa having 1 or 2 showy flowers.
10. A doctor's degree in education.
11. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
12. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
13. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
14. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
19. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
23. The presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling.
25. An associate degree in nursing.
28. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
29. The sixth month of the civil year.
31. Depressing in character or appearance.
32. Make or become free of frost or ice.
33. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
35. Any plant of the genus Erica.
36. A thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra.
40. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
41. A person who keeps watch over something or someone.
42. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
44. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
47. The largest city and former capital of Turkey.
50. Of a pale purple color.
51. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery.
53. Not out.
56. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
58. South American herb with sticky glandular foliage.
60. A Mid-Atlantic state.
62. Eaten as mush or as a thin gruel.
63. Any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars.
64. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
66. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
67. Avatar of Vishnu.
68. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
70. Wild and domestic cattle.
71. Black tropical American cuckoo.
75. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.