1. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
4. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
9. An article deposited as security.
13. The federal department responsible for safeguarding national security.
16. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
17. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
18. The content of cognition.
19. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
20. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
21. United States engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (born in 1916).
23. A wooden hand tool with a pointed end.
25. Not dense.
27. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
29. Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC).
30. A Brazilian river.
32. Spray very finely.
34. Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
35. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
36. 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.
40. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
42. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
43. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
47. Weapons considered collectively.
49. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
50. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
52. Suggestive of the supernatural.
53. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
55. Take by theft.
57. Edible bulb of an onion plant.
58. An ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage.
59. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
61. A port in western Israel on the Mediterranean.
64. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
65. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
67. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
69. On or toward the lee.
70. Hungarian hunting dog resembling the Weimaraner but having a rich deep red coat.
71. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
72. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
75. The basic monetary unit in many countries.
78. 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.
81. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
83. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
86. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity.
88. In some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.
92. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
93. A lack of vitality.
95. A river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea.
96. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.
97. The main city of ancient Phoenicia.
99. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
101. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
102. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
103. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
104. A quantity of no importance.
105. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

1. The protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes.
2. A morel whose fertile portion resembles a bell and is attached to the stipe only at the top.
3. Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings.
4. A drink resembling beer.
5. Be compatible or in accordance with.
6. The cry made by sheep.
7. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
8. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
9. (of birds) Especially having the flight feathers.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. Having been taken in marriage.
12. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
13. United States labor organizer who ran for President as a socialist (1855-1926).
14. The capital and largest city of Norway.
15. Relatively deep or strong.
22. Of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base.
24. Consisting of or made of wood of the beech tree.
26. Cast again, in a different role.
28. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
31. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.
33. A state in midwestern United States.
37. A conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere.
38. A light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet.
39. An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.
41. Of or relating to a creed.
44. The sign language used in the United States.
45. Apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter.
46. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
48. Wood of any of various maple trees.
51. Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
54. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
56. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
60. Russian country house.
62. A city in north central Morocco.
63. The sixth month of the civil year.
66. An epic in Latin by Virgil.
68. The temporal end.
73. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
74. Statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (born in 1924).
76. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
77. Arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments.
79. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
80. A member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built.
82. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
87. Derive or receive pleasure from.
89. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
90. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
91. Marked by the reception of pay.
92. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
94. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
98. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
100. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.