1. The portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. A Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation.
9. Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
13. A container.
16. Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue.
17. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
18. Precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents.
19. The capital and largest city of Japan.
20. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
21. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
22. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
23. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
24. American civil rights worker in Mississippi.
26. A successful ending of a struggle or contest.
28. One of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones.
30. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
31. A user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon.
34. Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep.
37. A state in the western United States.
40. Before noon.
43. A gait in which steps and hops alternate.
44. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote.
45. Shockingly repellent.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
48. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
49. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
51. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
53. Not reflecting light.
55. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care.
56. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
58. (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question.
60. Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air.
61. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.
63. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
65. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
66. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
69. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
71. Situated at the top or highest position.
72. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics.
73. A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska.
76. The branch of information science that deals with natural language information.
79. Affectedly trendy.
80. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
84. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
88. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
91. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
92. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
94. Acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales.
96. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
97. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
98. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
99. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.

1. A wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish.
2. Italian architect who pioneered in the use of reinforced concrete (1891-1979).
3. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
4. The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world.
5. A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
6. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
7. (electronics) Designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels.
8. A Loloish language.
9. Hit hard.
10. Electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds.
11. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. A member of the beat generation.
14. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
15. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
25. An abundance of material possessions and resources.
27. United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935).
29. The length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference.
32. Produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f'. `s', `z', or `th' (in both `thin' and `then')).
33. United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship in 1952 (1924-1969).
35. Insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing.
36. Make circular welds.
38. Leather covering the toe of a boot or shoe and reinforcing or decorating it.
39. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
41. An unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman.
42. The basic unit of money in Gambia.
46. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
50. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
52. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
54. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
57. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
59. A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.
62. Any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers.
64. Great coolness and composure under strain.
67. A loose cloak with a hood.
68. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
70. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
71. Being nine more than forty.
74. The sacred city of Lamaism.
75. Duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females.
77. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan.
78. A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium.
81. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
82. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
83. Suggestive of the supernatural.
85. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.
86. A Loloish language.
87. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
89. A decree that prohibits something.
90. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
93. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
95. A person forced to flee from home or country.