1. Wild and domestic cattle.
4. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
10. The compass point midway between south and southwest.
13. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
14. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
16. Tear or be torn violently.
18. A native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
23. (music) Characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality.
24. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
25. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
26. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
30. A brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost.
34. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
36. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
38. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
39. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
42. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. A small amount of residue.
45. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
47. 1/1000 gram.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. Music performed for dancing the polka.
56. A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function.
58. Occurring during the middle of the week.
60. Having been read.
63. A master's degree in business.
64. Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
65. A Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream.
66. Tag the base runner to get him out.
67. Not only so, but.
68. The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord.
69. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
2. Evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits.
3. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
4. Before noon.
5. Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
6. One million periods per second.
7. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
8. An avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano.
9. (medicine) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course.
10. A city of central China.
11. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
12. A cry of sorrow and grief.
17. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
19. (informal) Of the highest quality.
22. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
27. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
28. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
29. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
31. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
32. Liquid containing proteins and electrolytes including the liquid in blood plasma and interstitial fluid.
33. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
35. A formal expression of praise.
37. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
40. A doctor's degree in optometry.
41. An ability to understand a broad range of topics.
42. Before noon.
43. The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).
46. United States author (born 1932).
48. Small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests.
51. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
53. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Jordan's port.
57. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
59. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface.
60. A brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur.
61. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
62. A small drink.