1. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates sperm-forming cells in male mammals.
4. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.
9. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
13. The compass point that is one point west of due north.
16. A member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana.
17. Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers.
18. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
19. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
20. (Irish) The sea personified.
21. Lean end of the neck.
22. 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.
23. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
24. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
26. Noisy and mischievous merrymaking.
28. Many times at short intervals.
30. In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants.
33. Any wingless blood-sucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap.
39. Being nine more than ninety.
41. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
45. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
46. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
47. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
49. Someone who cuts and delivers ice.
50. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
52. Appeal or request earnestly.
53. Localized scleroderma.
55. A beautiful and graceful girl.
56. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
58. 30 to 300 kilohertz.
59. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
60. Spaced apart.
67. Of or relating to or characteristic of Texas or its residents.
69. Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head).
70. A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific.
71. A member of the South American Indian people living in Brazil and Paraguay.
73. Colloquial British abbreviation.
76. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
78. French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987).
81. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
85. The lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed.
86. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
89. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
90. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.
92. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
95. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
96. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
97. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
98. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
99. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

1. Any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals many with retractile claws.
2. Utter obscenities or profanities.
3. Of or concerning this.
4. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.
5. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
6. Strong and sharp.
7. Largest crested screamer.
8. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
9. Toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric.
10. Type genus of the Anatidae.
11. A light touch or stroke.
12. A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
13. A Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia.
14. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
15. English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723).
25. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
27. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
29. Anything that tends to arouse.
31. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
32. That is to say.
34. A European river.
35. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
36. A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram.
37. An extinct Semitic language of northern Syria.
38. Sauce for pasta.
40. An instrument for measuring the distance between two points.
42. An instance or single occasion for some event.
43. (computer science) A graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
44. Challenge the honesty or credibility of.
48. Become less tense.
51. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac disease.
54. By bad luck.
57. A bachelor's degree in religion.
61. Thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes.
62. (Babylonian) Any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii.
63. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
64. Comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord.
65. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.
66. Protected from heat and light with shade or shadow.
68. Of or relating to the Sinhalese languages.
69. Largest crested screamer.
72. Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves.
74. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
75. The large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries.
77. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
79. American political cartoonist (1840-1902).
80. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
82. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).
83. In bed.
84. Type genus of the Majidae.
87. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
88. Used of a single unit or thing.
91. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
93. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
94. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.