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1. A fastener for a door or lid.
5. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
10. Inquire about.
13. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
14. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of an ohm.
15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
16. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
17. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
19. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
21. A member of an agricultural people in southeastern India.
23. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
25. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
26. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
28. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
36. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
37. First in order of importance.
38. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
40. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
41. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
42. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
46. American Revolutionary patriot.
50. A bachelor's degree in religion.
55. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
58. A knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue.
59. Used especially in treating bruises.
62. A master's degree in business.
63. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
64. The third month of the civil year.
65. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
66. A vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen.
67. Convert ordinary language into code.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. English pianist (1890-1965).
2. A particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography).
3. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
4. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
5. (informal) Roused to anger.
6. Lie adjacent to another.
7. Characteristic of a mob.
8. God of wealth and love.
9. Type genus of the Amiidae.
10. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
11. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
12. God of love and erotic desire.
20. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
22. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
24. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
30. A light touch or stroke.
31. An accountant certified by the state.
32. The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
33. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
35. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
39. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
43. 16 ounces.
44. A public promotion of some product or service.
45. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
47. The capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal.
48. (archaic) Utterly cast down.
49. Limbless scaly elongate reptile.
51. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
52. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
53. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
54. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
56. A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth.
57. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
60. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
61. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
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