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1. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
5. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
12. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
15. The capital of Western Samoa.
16. Of or relating to Aram or to its inhabitants or their culture or their language.
17. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
18. The capital of Croatia.
19. Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.
20. Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar.
21. An inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.
22. One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
24. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
26. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
34. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
37. (of music) Characteristic of rural life.
38. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
40. Fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts.
42. (computer science) A measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium.
43. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
44. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
45. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
46. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
47. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
49. Small cake baked in a muffin tin.
56. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
57. English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943).
60. Having or furnished with a mast.
63. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
64. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
65. King of the Vandals who seized Roman lands and invaded North Africa and sacked Rome (428-477).
69. A bitter quarrel between two parties.
71. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
74. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
75. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
76. A member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila.
77. A form of address for a married woman.
78. By bad luck.
79. A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments.
80. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
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1. A member of a Muslim Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan).
2. With rapid movements.
3. Genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers.
4. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
5. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
8. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
9. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
10. The cry made by sheep.
11. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc.
12. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
13. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae.
14. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
23. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. The state of being unsure of something.
27. One thousandth of a second.
28. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
29. (Sumerian) Legendary friend of Gilgamish.
30. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.
31. A large number or amount.
32. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
33. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.
35. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
36. Type genus of the Anatidae.
39. The capital of Morocco.
41. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
48. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
50. A foreboding about what is about to happen.
51. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
52. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
53. Everything you own.
54. Before noon.
55. A motley assortment of things.
58. Of or relating to or involving an area.
59. Any taillike structure.
61. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
62. An island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago.
66. Avatar of Vishnu.
67. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
68. (law) A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
70. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
72. A broad flat muscle on either side of the back.
73. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
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