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1. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
5. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.
12. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.
15. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
16. In a naive manner.
17. The sound made by a pigeon v 1.
18. Point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch).
19. An ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair.
20. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.
22. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.
24. A name that has been assumed temporarily.
26. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
27. A professional cook.
28. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
30. Disposed of as useless.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
40. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
44. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
46. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.
47. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
48. The sixth month of the civil year.
50. A tax on various goods brought into a town.
53. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
55. Taken before a meal as an appetizer.
57. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
58. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
60. A long-playing phonograph record.
61. English monk and scholar (672-735).
65. A Formosan language.
67. Not one of the first three in a race or competition.
72. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
73. Proboscis worms.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
78. The range within which a voice can be heard.
79. A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
80. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
81. Reduce the emphasis.
82. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
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1. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.
2. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
3. An independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages.
4. The striking of one body against another.
5. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
6. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
7. Any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family.
8. Stay clear from.
9. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
10. Being nine more than forty.
11. (Norse mythology) God of war and strife and son of Odin.
12. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
13. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
14. An atom having a valence of one.
21. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
23. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
25. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A port city in southwestern Iran.
32. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
33. The 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
34. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
37. The cry made by sheep.
38. A quantity of no importance.
39. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
41. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
42. (botany) Relating to a plant of the family Araceae.
43. A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre.
45. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
49. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods.
51. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metallic element.
52. The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.
54. Used of persons and their behavior.
56. Taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants.
59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
62. Type genus of the Soleidae.
63. A leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528).
64. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
66. Ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse.
68. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
69. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
70. Armor plate that protects the chest.
71. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
74. A form of address for a married woman.
75. The universal time coordinated when an event is received on Earth.
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