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1. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
5. Small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears.
12. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
15. A city in northern Uganda.
16. Inflammation of the ileum.
17. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
18. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829).
19. French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905).
20. Open to or abounding in fresh air.
22. A wired or starched collar of intricate lace.
23. Unpleasant wetness.
25. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).
28. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
29. An organization of military land forces.
32. Variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz.
33. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
35. A nonenterprising person who is not paying his way.
37. Hormone produced early in pregnancy by the placenta.
40. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
43. The month following September and preceding November.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
45. Not only so, but.
47. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
48. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
51. 300 to 3000 kilohertz.
53. The capital and largest city of Norway.
55. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
56. Transient cessation of respiration.
60. The highest level or degree attainable.
62. A wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France.
64. A diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls.
67. A knitted fabric or one resembling knitting.
68. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
69. Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure.
71. Derive or receive pleasure from.
74. A motley assortment of things.
76. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people.
78. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
79. A son who has the same first name as his father.
82. A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
83. An artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto.
84. Enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
2. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
3. One of the common people.
4. A topical sulfonamide (trade name Sulamyd) used to treat eye infections.
5. The legal dissolution of a marriage.
6. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
7. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
8. Located at or near the back of an animal.
9. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
10. Being one more than one.
11. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925).
12. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
13. Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace).
14. The location of something surrounded by other things.
21. In or of the present month.
24. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
26. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
27. Wish harm upon.
30. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
31. Not reflecting light.
34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
36. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
38. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
39. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
41. Small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits.
42. Either of two muscles of the abdomen and pelvis that flex the trunk and rotate the thigh.
46. Rub elbows with.
49. Scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
50. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
52. Made a feature or highlight.
54. A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit.
57. A republic in western South America.
58. In ceremonial attire and paraphernalia.
59. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
61. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
63. Become wider.
65. Either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes.
66. (informal British usage) Aggravation or aggression.
70. The act of preventing the opposition from scoring (in sports).
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. God of love and erotic desire.
75. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
77. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
81. 16 ounces.
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