1. A polymer of vinyl chloride used instead of rubber in electric cables.
4. Someone who has won first place in a competition.
9. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
13. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
18. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
19. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters.
20. Toward the mouth or oral region.
22. Small genus of mediterranean shrubs.
24. Common house and field crickets.
26. A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
27. Any of various herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems or flowers are cooked and used for food or seasoning.
29. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
30. An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly).
32. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
33. Microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica.
35. A winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Graeco-Roman art).
38. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
39. The sixth month of the civil year.
43. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
45. Resembling an eel in being long and thin and sinuous.
46. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
48. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
50. God of fire.
52. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
53. Bound or secured closely.
54. A great raja.
57. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.
59. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
61. Jet engine in which a turbine drives air to the burner.
65. Very attentive or observant.
66. Capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria.
70. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
71. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
73. A tight-fitting garment that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles).
75. Up to the present time.
76. Studies of the formation of basic linguistic units.
78. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
80. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish.
83. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
85. A quantity of no importance.
89. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
90. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
94. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.
96. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
98. An accountant certified by the state.
99. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
100. Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force, as on a wave.
101. A small cake leavened with yeast.
102. An associate degree in applied science.
103. Radiation lying in the ultraviolet range.

1. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
2. A Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities.
3. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
4. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
5. A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck.
6. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.
7. Not reflecting light.
8. A major god.
9. Fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses.
10. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
11. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
12. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.
13. Advanced in years.
14. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
15. By bad luck.
21. Having the surface damaged or disfigured.
23. Health care for the aged.
25. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
28. Small smooth-haired breed of African origin having a tightly curled tail and the inability to bark.
31. A soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
34. (Greek mythology) The Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.
36. Yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps.
37. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
40. By divine means.
41. Bubble shells.
42. Temperamentally disinclined to talk.
44. A literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning.
47. (comparative of `near') Being the one of two that is less distant in space.
49. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
51. An opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker.
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. (trademark) A liquid that temporarily disables a person.
58. Valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves.
60. A state in New England.
62. Irish abbess.
63. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
64. (Old Testament) The wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac.
67. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
68. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
69. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. Covered with paving material.
74. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
77. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
81. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
82. Wind god.
84. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
86. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
87. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
88. Type genus of the Anatidae.
91. A local computer network for communication between computers.
92. A resource.
93. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
95. A state in midwestern United States.
97. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.