1. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
4. An organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration.
12. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
15. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
16. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
17. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
18. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
20. Involving the entire earth.
22. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
24. A toilet in England.
25. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
26. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
28. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group.
32. An associate degree in applied science.
34. Someone who asks a question.
35. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
37. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippines.
39. A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting.
43. The residue that remains when something is burned.
44. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
46. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
48. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
51. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown cause.
52. A genus of Mustelidae.
53. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
54. Any system of principles or beliefs.
56. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
58. A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa.
60. Enthusiastic approval.
63. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
64. Obvious and dull.
67. Any tree or shrub of the genus Inga having pinnate leaves and showy usually white flowers.
70. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
74. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
75. The capital of Eritrea.
79. The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections.
80. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
82. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
83. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
84. Low stingless nettle of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
85. How long something has existed.

1. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
2. Wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills.
3. Squash bugs.
4. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
5. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.
6. Deciduous trees with smooth usually silver-gray bark of North America and Europe and Asia.
7. A rapid bustling commotion.
8. A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting).
9. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
10. Someone who looks on.
11. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
12. A large number or amount.
13. The overhang at the lower edge of a roof.
14. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
19. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
21. Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision.
23. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
29. A move or step or maneuver in political or diplomatic affairs.
31. Middle-distance iron.
33. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
36. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
38. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
40. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
41. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
42. Any taillike structure.
45. A French abbot.
47. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
49. A small cake leavened with yeast.
50. A light touch or stroke.
55. Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits.
57. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
59. An accountant certified by the state.
61. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
62. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
65. A city in northern India.
66. United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971).
68. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.
69. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.
71. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
72. The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
73. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
76. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
77. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
81. Being nine more than ninety.