1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. The unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar.
12. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
15. Being one more than two.
16. Easily calmed or pacified.
17. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
18. A member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah.
20. A city of central China.
21. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
22. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
23. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
25. Affect with wonder.
27. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist.
29. A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River.
32. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
34. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
43. An associate degree in nursing.
44. German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948).
45. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
49. The basic unit of money in Ghana.
50. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
52. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
54. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
55. Jordan's port.
58. Not subjected to an aging process.
61. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
64. Strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco.
67. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
69. A city and port in northern Jutland.
73. Very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants.
76. The cry made by sheep.
77. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
78. An arthropod family including.
80. Used of a single unit or thing.
81. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
82. A place where taxis park while awaiting customers.
83. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.

1. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
2. Country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula.
3. Of or relating or belonging to a city.
4. The ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time spent traveling (in hours).
5. Remote in manner.
6. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
7. A dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain.
8. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
9. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
10. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
11. Of or relating to punishment.
12. Largest known toad species.
13. Harass with persistent criticism or carping.
14. Soft creamy white cheese.
19. A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles.
24. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
26. Red Bordeaux wine from the Medoc district of southwestern France.
28. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
30. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
33. Offering little or no hope.
35. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
37. South American cavy.
38. Wish harm upon.
39. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
41. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
46. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
47. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
48. English monk and scholar (672-735).
51. A bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt.
53. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
56. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
57. (pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.
59. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
60. (of a male animal) Having the testicles removed.
62. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
65. A genus of Ploceidae.
66. A formal expression of praise.
68. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
70. A slender double-reed instrument.
71. A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion.
72. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
74. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
75. The shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
79. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.