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1. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
4. Cause inflammation in.
11. Combining form.
15. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
16. Someone who has retired from active working.
17. The content of cognition.
18. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
20. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
21. Having come or been brought to a conclusion.
22. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
25. Cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven.
26. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. A small cake leavened with yeast.
28. A city of central China.
31. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
33. Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view.
37. The beginning or early stages.
40. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
41. Squash bugs.
42. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
43. Argentinian cariama.
46. A resident of Kansas.
47. Type genus of the Echeneididae.
49. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
51. A telephone connection.
52. A Mid-Atlantic state.
59. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
62. A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning.
64. A dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland.
68. Of or being the lowest female voice.
69. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
72. Imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
73. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
75. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
76. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
77. A bee that is a a member of the genus Andrena.
78. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
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1. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
2. An industrial city is southeastern Austria.
3. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying.
4. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
5. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.
6. A linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard.
7. A widely distributed family of plants.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. One million bits.
10. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
11. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
12. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
13. Plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves.
14. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
19. That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.
23. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
24. Pacific newts.
29. Not established by conditioning or learning.
30. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
32. An ancient city is southern Greece.
34. The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one.
35. Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold.
36. Contemptibly small in amount.
38. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
39. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
44. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
45. Move out of a curled position.
48. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
50. Being nine more than ninety.
53. Leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo.
54. A member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado river.
55. A nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas.
56. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
57. (used of opinions and actions) Far beyond the norm.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. Used especially of fruits.
61. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).
63. On or toward the lee.
65. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
66. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
67. An unforeseen obstacle.
70. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
71. (Irish) The sea personified.
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