1. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.
4. The activity of preparing.
12. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
15. A rapid bustling commotion.
16. A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance.
17. A small piece of cloth.
18. United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930).
20. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
21. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
22. The sister of your father or mother.
25. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
26. A member of a social and cultural elite especially a descendant of an Old New England family.
28. A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu.
30. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
31. Small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
32. make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.
35. An informal debt instrument.
38. A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink).
42. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
43. A domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church.
44. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
45. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
49. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
53. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
56. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
57. A large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
62. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
64. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
68. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine).
72. Constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches.
74. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
75. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.
78. Jordan's port.
79. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
80. Sour or bitter in taste.
82. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
83. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
84. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

1. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
2. The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.
3. An Italian woman of rank.
4. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
5. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
6. Someone whose business is advertising.
7. Having relatively few calories.
8. Not only so, but.
9. In an extreme degree.
10. A state in southeastern United States.
11. Of or resembling a geodesic dome.
12. Paper with a crinkled texture.
13. (neurology) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
14. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
19. The intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors.
23. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
24. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
27. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
29. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.
33. Type genus of the Triglidae.
34. Cause to lose one's nerve.
36. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
37. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
39. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
40. Something left after other parts have been taken away.
41. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
46. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
48. A small cake leavened with yeast.
52. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
58. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
59. Any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks.
60. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
61. Related to or located at the back.
63. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
65. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).
66. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
67. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
69. Consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence.
70. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
71. A rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials.
73. Any competition.
76. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
77. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
81. Being nine more than forty.