1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
4. Any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.
9. An narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family.
13. Nonresinous wood of a fir tree.
16. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
17. Moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults.
18. Loose or flaccid body fat.
19. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
20. An associate degree in applied science.
21. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
23. An ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
25. (informal) Exceptionally good.
27. The month following March and preceding May.
28. The upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk.
30. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
31. Release or vent, as of emotions and reactions.
35. American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
38. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
40. The address where a person lives.
46. (music) A curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato.
49. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
51. (Zen Buddhism) A state of sudden spiritual enlightenment.
52. Bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies.
53. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
54. On, to, or at the top.
55. Avatar of Vishnu.
57. Unknown god.
58. United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (born in 1905).
60. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
61. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
64. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
65. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
67. A person who eats human flesh.
70. 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.
71. Located in or toward the back or rear.
73. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
74. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
75. A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line.
78. Rapid and indistinct speech.
81. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
84. Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games.
88. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.
89. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
93. Not final or absolute.
94. Anything that provides inspiration for later work.
95. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
97. Black tropical American cuckoo.
98. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
99. The state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
101. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.

1. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
2. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
3. Flat tableland with steep edges.
4. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
5. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
6. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.
7. A native-born Israeli.
8. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
9. The second largest city in Tunisia.
10. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
11. An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle.
12. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
13. Goddess of the heavens and married love.
14. Any plant of the genus Inula.
15. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves.
22. Shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores.
24. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
26. A jellied candy coated with sugar crystals.
29. Being nine more than ninety.
32. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
33. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.
34. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
36. (linguistics) Relating to the ablative case.
37. Meat from a mature domestic sheep.
39. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
41. A state in midwestern United States.
42. A fraudulent business scheme.
43. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
44. Unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure.
45. Subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent.
47. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
48. Capital of modern Macedonia.
50. City in northeast Pakistan.
56. Jordan's port.
59. Type genus of the Coerebidae.
62. Large Indian antelope.
63. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
66. The mother of your father or mother.
67. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
68. (British) Your grandmother.
69. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
72. Placed crosswise.
76. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
77. Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals.
78. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
79. Squash bugs.
80. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
82. A monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae.
83. (computer science) A standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents.
85. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
86. A Russian river.
87. Set down according to a plan.
90. A zodiacal constellation in northern hemisphere between Cancer and Virgo.
91. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
92. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
96. A colorless and odorless inert gas.