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1. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
4. Rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and trap-leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle.
12. The act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)).
15. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
16. A kiln used to reduce naturally occuring forms of calcium carbonate to lime.
17. Used of a single unit or thing.
18. Not often.
19. A constitutional monarchy in northern Europe on the western side of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
20. The foot of a human being.
21. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
22. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as Prime Minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt (1913-1992).
24. Small genus of Eurasian herbs.
26. (Greek mythology) The ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades.
28. (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC).
29. Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water.
32. The British system of withholding tax.
33. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
36. Heavy closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents).
41. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
42. Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle.
44. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).
46. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
47. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together.
49. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
50. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
51. Someone who assists in a plot.
55. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
56. By bad luck.
57. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
62. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
66. Goddess of fortune.
70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
74. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
75. Similar to the natural color of pinks.
76. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
77. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
78. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
79. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
80. The basic unit of money in Albania.
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1. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
2. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
3. Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal.
4. Involving the entire earth.
5. Parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates.
6. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
7. Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).
8. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
9. Term of address for a man.
10. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
11. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
12. A populous province in northeastern China.
13. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
14. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
23. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
25. A genus of Lamnidae.
27. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.
30. A driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip.
31. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
34. Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.
35. Ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC.
37. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
38. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
39. Moving quickly and lightly.
40. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
43. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
45. The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England.
48. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
52. (informal) Roused to anger.
53. Situated in front of the anus.
54. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
58. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
59. A public promotion of some product or service.
60. A folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle).
61. Jordan's port.
63. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
64. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
65. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
67. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
68. Produced by a manufacturing process.
69. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
71. An accountant certified by the state.
72. A rapid bustling commotion.
73. The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
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