1. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
4. A grant made by a law court.
12. A bachelor's degree in theology.
15. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
16. Someone who attacks in search of booty.
17. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
18. A band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over.
20. (formerly) A writing tablet made of slate.
21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
22. One of two alternative forms of a genes that can have the same locus on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative traits.
23. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
24. A musical percussion instrument.
26. Informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions.
29. Earn on some commercial or business transaction.
30. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
31. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
34. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
37. Found in the ordinary course of events.
41. Having leadership guidance.
43. The capital of Western Samoa.
45. A resident of Alabama.
48. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
50. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
51. Medium tall celery pine of New Zealand.
52. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
54. The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds).
57. An ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River.
58. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
62. Shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliage.
67. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
70. Any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent.
73. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
74. Of or pertaining to tactics.
76. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.
77. The basic unit of money in Albania.
78. Spoken with emphasis.
79. The compass point midway between east and southeast.

1. United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944).
2. An island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon.
3. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
4. An alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth.
5. Articles of the same kind or material.
6. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
7. Follower of Rastafarianism.
8. The organ stop having a tone of soft sweet string quality.
9. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
10. Remaining after all deductions.
11. An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.
12. Small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs.
13. Of or relating to or located near a hilum.
14. (Irish) Goddess.
19. United States tennis player (born in Czechoslovakia) who won several singles championships.
25. (Greek mythology) A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father.
27. A woman sahib.
28. (Yiddish) Someone who is a boring pest.
32. An informal term for a father.
33. An associate degree in nursing.
35. Big-eyed scad.
36. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
38. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
39. Hoop that covers a wheel.
40. German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968).
42. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
44. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
46. A Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan.
47. A cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte).
49. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
53. An oil port in southern Iraq.
55. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
56. A public promotion of some product or service.
59. Selected as the best.
60. A tributary of the Rio Grande.
61. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
63. A feeling of intense anger.
64. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
65. A fraudulent business scheme.
66. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
68. The highest level or degree attainable.
71. A protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another.
72. Considerate and solicitous care.
75. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.