1. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
4. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
9. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.
13. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
16. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
17. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
18. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler.
19. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
20. The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites.
22. Any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors.
24. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
25. German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831).
26. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
28. United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902).
29. (chemistry) P(otential of) H(ydrogen).
30. Genus of erect herbs of the Middle East having showy flowers.
31. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.
33. The Oceanic language spoken by the Maori people in New Zealand.
36. 16 ounces.
41. Any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart).
42. Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person.
44. A state in the eastern United States.
45. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.
47. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
51. Antibacterial drug (trade name Nydrazid) used to treat tuberculosis.
54. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.
55. The battle in 1356 in which the English under the Black Prince defeated the French.
57. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
59. At a previous time.
60. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
61. Grow by addition, as of capital.
65. (Sumerian) Sun god.
66. The state of being covered with unclean things.
68. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear.
70. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
72. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
74. Ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus.
78. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
81. Being in competition.
83. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
87. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
88. Not arranged for pictorial purposes.
92. A sharp projection on an edge or surface.
93. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring.
94. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
96. Food for domestic livestock.
97. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
98. A book of the New Testament.
99. An awkward stupid person.
100. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

1. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
2. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.
3. A vigorous blow.
4. Aromatic gum resin.
5. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
6. Small very thin pancake.
7. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
9. Divulge information or secrets.
10. Declared but not proved.
11. The seed of the cereal grass.
12. German composer (1833-1897).
13. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
14. Petty quarrel.
15. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
21. A special loved one.
23. The 26th letter of the Roman alphabet.
27. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.
29. A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle).
32. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
34. An oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina.
35. A shrubby perennial rhizomatous evergreen herb.
37. (informal) Exceptionally good.
38. Of or containing divalent copper.
39. Pass beyond.
40. The angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself.
43. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
46. Straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes.
48. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
49. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
50. Outstanding Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921).
52. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
53. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
56. English inventor who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877).
58. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
62. Deciduous shrubs and trees of eastern Asia, southern Europe and the United States.
63. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
64. A net or mesh foundation for lace.
67. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
69. Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
70. Type genus of the Tetraonidae.
71. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
72. Being nine more than forty.
73. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
75. Metal shackles.
76. A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas.
77. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters.
79. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
80. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.
82. Meat from a calf.
84. The basic unit of money in Cambodia.
85. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
86. A quantity of no importance.
89. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.
90. Having only superficial plausibility.
91. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.
92. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
95. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element.