1. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
5. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
11. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. Of or relating to near the ear.
16. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.
17. The act of preventing the opposition from scoring (in sports).
18. The Fate who cuts the thread of life.
20. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
21. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
22. The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
23. A genus of Ploceidae.
26. An awkward stupid person.
28. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
29. Small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains.
30. Small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs.
34. The capital and largest city of Japan.
35. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
38. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
41. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
43. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
48. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
49. A sharp sound made by small birds or insects v 1.
51. Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922).
52. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. One of the 7 gods of happiness.
54. Lower in esteem.
55. In bed.
57. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
59. Vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish.
61. Doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the oneness of one's self and the visible world.
64. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
65. Of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
71. Female of domestic cattle.
72. Durable fragrant wood.
76. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
77. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
78. Pasta in the form of slender tubes.
80. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
81. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
82. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.

1. An explosive device fused to denote under specific conditions.
2. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.
3. The basic unit of money on Malta.
4. A tax on various goods brought into a town.
5. One thousand periods per second.
6. A city in northwestern Syria.
7. Assembly possessing high legislative powers.
8. English monk and scholar (672-735).
9. The eleventh month of the civil year.
10. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
11. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
12. Of or relating to or characteristic of Gambia or its inhabitants.
13. A means of serving.
14. Right-hand page.
19. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
24. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
27. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
31. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
32. The matter ejected in vomiting.
33. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
36. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
37. Capital of the state of Montana.
39. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
40. A can for storing tea.
42. The process of taking in and expelling air during breathing.
44. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
45. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
46. Member of a Jewish sect that observes a form of strict Orthodox Judaism.
47. A man who is engaged to be married.
57. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
70. Disposed of to a purchaser.
75. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.