1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. Grown for its thickened edible aromatic root.
12. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A city in the northern panhandle of Texas.
17. The extreme end of something.
18. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
19. Revise or reorganize, esp. for the purpose of updating and improving.
20. Being three more than ninety.
22. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
26. A colorless flammable volatile liquid hydrocarbon used as a solvent.
27. A town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico.
31. Make worse or less effective.
35. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
36. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
39. East Indian annual erect herb.
40. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
42. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
44. An udder or breast or teat.
45. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
48. A failure to maintain a higher state.
51. An authoritative command or request.
54. (heraldry) Rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile.
56. Having or resembling a lobe or lobes.
57. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.
59. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.
61. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
62. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
63. A resident of Idaho.
68. Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain.
71. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
72. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
73. Belgian cosmologist who proposed the big-bang theory of the origin of the universe (1894-1966).
75. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc.
76. Having leadership guidance.
77. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including.
78. (Babylonian) The sky god.

1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
2. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
3. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
4. Revelry in drinking.
5. United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882).
6. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
7. (Greek mythology) God of love.
8. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
9. Not in good physical or mental health.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. A conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments.
12. Of or relating to near the ear.
13. Being three more than fifty.
14. The capital of Western Samoa.
21. Colony of the United Kingdom located on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain.
23. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
24. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
25. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
28. With rapid movements.
29. The quality of a person's voice.
30. An elaborate song for solo voice.
32. Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa.
33. Administer an oil or ointment to.
34. Popular music originating in the West Indies.
37. An associate degree in nursing.
38. A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.
41. A farewell remark.
43. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. Prepared by cutting.
47. Marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations.
49. Widely distributed genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.
50. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
52. A small sc or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth).
53. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
55. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
58. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
60. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
64. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
65. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
66. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
67. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
69. (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness.
70. A successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball).
74. A state in New England.