1. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
4. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
9. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
13. A flexible container with a single opening.
16. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
17. Complacently or inanely foolish.
18. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
19. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.
21. An herb with milky juice.
23. Talks a great deal about uninteresting topics.
25. Fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs.
27. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
29. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
30. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
32. Of or being the lowest female voice.
34. The seventh month of the Hindu calendar.
36. Half the width of an em.
41. A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.
42. An association of countries in the western hemisphere.
45. Small Old World songbird with a reddish breast.
46. An attribute that fits a person for something.
49. Drained of energy or effectiveness.
50. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
51. Gull family.
54. A small lump or protuberance.
56. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
57. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
59. A city of central China.
60. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
62. Jordan's port.
63. Make amends for.
64. United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River.
68. Before noon.
69. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
74. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
78. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
79. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
81. Of or denoting or relating to the Balkan countries or their inhabitants or the Balkan peninsula or the Balkan Mountains.
83. A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.
86. A human limb.
88. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
90. A native American tent.
91. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
92. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
93. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
94. A branch of the Tai languages.
95. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
96. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
97. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
98. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

1. A formal association of people with similar interests.
2. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
3. Migratory American songbird.
4. A digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder.
5. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
6. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
7. The brightest star in Scorpius.
8. (Old Testament) A son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel.
9. Hit hard.
10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
11. The capital and largest city of Rwanda.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. A small cake leavened with yeast.
14. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
22. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
24. Type of the Scolopacidae.
26. Round flat seed of the lentil plant.
28. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
31. Capital and largest city of Yugoslavia.
33. Large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters.
35. Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs.
37. The sound made by a cow or bull.
38. A peninsula in southwestern Europe.
39. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
40. The semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express opposite meanings.
43. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
44. The wife of a sheik.
47. Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism (1469-1538).
48. A woman of refinement.
52. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
53. Fiddler crabs.
55. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
58. A demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses.
61. (slang) Merchandise that is shoddy or inferior.
65. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the Black Hills of western South Dakota.
66. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
67. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
68. A small cake leavened with yeast.
70. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth.
71. A port city in southwestern Iran.
72. Wool of the alpaca.
73. In or belonging to the air or operating (for or by means of aircraft or elevated cables) in the air.
74. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
75. United States baseball player (born 1925).
77. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains.
78. Before noon.
80. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
82. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
84. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
85. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
87. A unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure.
89. A unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity.
90. Being one more than fifty.