1. Ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure = 1.5 gallons.
4. A mountain peak in south central Sri Lanka (7,360 feet high).
12. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
15. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
16. Repetition or recapitulation in reverse order.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called pueblos by the Spanish because they live in villages built of adobe and rock.
20. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish.
21. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.
22. Give free rein to.
24. Get something.
26. The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds).
28. Leave or strike out, as of vowels.
29. A member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council).
32. A drawing intended to explain how something works.
35. Feeling nausea.
37. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
38. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. (informal) Of the highest quality.
43. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
44. Found along western Atlantic coast.
47. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
50. An association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia.
51. Find repugnant.
53. Jordan's port.
55. Small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves.
57. Either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx.
60. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
67. Remaining after all deductions.
68. English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles.
70. Come to pass.
71. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
73. A loud resonant repeating noise.
75. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933).
76. A sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog).
77. Having been made empty.
78. A person active in party politics.

1. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona.
2. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
3. A condition requiring relief.
4. English comic actor (1925-1980).
5. (botany) Development of an embryo without fertilization.
6. Informal terms for a mother.
7. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
8. A sign of assent or salutation or command.
9. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).
10. Any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia.
11. Given to avoiding association with others.
12. Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms.
13. Speaking a Slavic language.
14. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
19. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs.
23. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
25. Having a specified kind of border or edge.
27. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion.
30. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
31. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
33. One of two alternative forms of a genes that can have the same locus on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative traits.
34. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
36. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
40. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
41. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
42. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
45. South African term for `boss'.
46. Lacking kindness.
48. A member of a North American Plains people (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming).
49. Ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick.
52. The skin that covers the top of the head.
54. European shad.
56. Directed up.
58. Excessively fat.
59. Relating to or accompanying birth.
63. The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
64. Having the slant of a bevel.
65. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
66. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
69. A period of time spent sleeping.
72. Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value.
74. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.