1. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
4. One of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament.
9. Drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material.
13. Hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary.
14. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
15. A city in northern India.
16. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
18. A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande.
20. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
22. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
23. Dwell (archaic).
26. A periodic paperback publication.
28. Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter.
30. Relating to or affecting a bursa.
34. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
35. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
36. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
37. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).
41. (chemistry) Relating to or containing the azido group N3.
42. A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects).
43. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
44. The foot of a human being.
45. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
47. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
51. An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty.
54. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
58. Black tropical American cuckoo.
59. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
62. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
63. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
64. Filled with fear or apprehension.
66. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
67. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
68. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
69. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

1. 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.
2. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
3. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
4. A note appended to a letter after the signature.
5. An enclosed space.
6. An associate degree in nursing.
7. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
8. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
9. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
10. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
11. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
12. Type genus of the Ranidae.
17. A small cake leavened with yeast.
19. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
21. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
24. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
25. Bar temporarily.
27. An industrial city is southeastern Austria.
29. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
31. A socially awkward or tactless act.
32. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
33. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
38. Historical and literary materials relating to Judaism.
39. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
40. A master's degree in business.
46. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
48. A genus of Platalea.
49. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
50. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
52. In or of the present month.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
55. God of love and erotic desire.
56. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
57. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).
60. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities.
61. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
62. A master's degree in business.
65. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.