1. An article deposited as security.
5. The snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the Organ of Corti.
12. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
15. An elaborate song for solo voice.
16. Tending to set free.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
20. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control.
21. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.
22. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
25. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
27. Characterized by absence of emotional agitation.
29. A seasonal wind in S Asia.
32. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
33. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
34. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
36. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. A French abbot.
41. The habitation of wild animals.
43. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
45. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
46. United by being of the same opinion.
48. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.
50. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
51. Marked by spirited enjoyment.
52. A unit of pain intensity.
55. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
56. Half the width of an em.
58. Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943).
62. A person of unquestioning obedience.
65. The state of owing money.
67. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
69. The front limb of a quadruped.
71. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
74. Jordan's port.
75. System of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds.
76. The sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office.
78. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
79. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
80. Adroitness and cleverness in reply.
81. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
3. Marked by skill in deception.
4. A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy.
5. A fluorocarbon with chlorine.
6. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
7. Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
8. A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease.
9. Genus of herbs and subshrubs having showy flowers.
10. A division of the United Kingdom.
11. How long something has existed.
12. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
13. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
14. Of or in or relating to the nose.
19. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
23. The force of workers available.
24. Short and fat.
26. A person of no influence.
28. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
30. Medieval artillery used during sieges.
31. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
35. A small ball with a hole through the middle.
38. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
39. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
40. English essayist (1775-1834).
42. Feel bitter or indignant about.
44. A large number of things or people considered together.
47. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
49. A deformity of the foot characterized by an abnormally high arch and hyperextension of the toes which gives the foot the appearance of a claw.
53. The peers of a kingdom considered as a group.
54. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
57. Biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root.
59. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
60. Lower in esteem.
61. The act of removing hair with a razor.
63. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
66. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
68. The goddess of the moon.
70. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
72. (Irish) The sea personified.
73. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety.
77. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.