1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
5. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
9. Absent without permission.
13. Humble request for help.
14. A compact mass.
15. Consistent with fact or reality.
16. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
17. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center.
18. A special way of doing something.
19. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence.
21. (prosody) The accent in a metrical foot of verse.
23. A Mid-Atlantic state.
24. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.
25. A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built.
26. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
27. Relating to or caused by a virus.
29. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
33. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
34. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
37. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
40. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
42. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
43. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
44. An informal term for a father.
46. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
47. Wild ginger.
52. A public promotion of some product or service.
53. Informal terms for a mother.
56. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
59. American Revolutionary patriot.
60. An accountant certified by the state.
61. Large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout.
64. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
65. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
66. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
67. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

1. Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
2. Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
3. Give over.
4. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
5. One millionth of a gram.
6. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
7. Curving inward.
8. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
9. (Greek mythology) Goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare.
10. An angry dispute.
11. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound.
12. A record in which commercial accounts are recorded.
20. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
22. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
28. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
30. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
31. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
32. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
35. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
36. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
38. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
39. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
41. Beet lacking swollen root.
45. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
46. A Mid-Atlantic state.
48. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
49. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
50. Cause to lose one's nerve.
51. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.
54. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
55. English essayist (1775-1834).
57. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
58. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. A colorless and odorless inert gas.