1. A sudden abrupt pull.
4. A plant fiber used for making rope.
9. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
13. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
16. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
17. Talk pompously.
18. A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip).
19. An accountant certified by the state.
20. A fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt by Scottish Highlanders.
22. A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. Of comparatively little physical weight or density.
26. Accumulate on the surface.
28. A telegram sent abroad.
29. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
30. Alligator lizards.
32. (of panes of glass) Fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead.
34. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
35. On, to, or at the top.
39. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
42. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
47. An insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult.
48. Little known Kamarupan languages.
49. A blank leaf in the front of back of a book.
50. A party who files a notice with a law court.
51. A cruel and brutal fellow.
53. Silkworm moths.
55. Fraught with extreme danger.
56. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
57. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
60. Lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
61. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
62. A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.
66. Of or pertaining to or written in Altaic.
67. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds.
69. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
71. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
72. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
76. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
79. Of or relating to or produced by or being a gene.
81. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
82. Drug (trade name Isordil) used to treat angina pectoris and congestive heart failure.
84. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
86. The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
89. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
90. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
93. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
94. Used of a single unit or thing.
95. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
97. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
99. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.
100. (British) Your grandmother.
101. Jordan's port.
102. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
103. Inquire about.

1. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
2. Remove the pins from.
3. Scandinavian punch made of claret and aquavit with spices and raisins and orange peel and sugar.
4. A military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position.
5. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
6. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
7. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
8. The sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage.
9. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
10. Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal.
11. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
12. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) From that fact or reason or as a result.
13. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
14. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
15. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
21. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened.
23. 1 species.
27. The process of gradually becoming inferior.
29. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit.
31. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
33. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
36. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
37. A short amusing opera.
38. (genetics) Designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced.
40. (anatomy) Opposite to or away from the mouth.
41. A port and state capital of Tasmania.
43. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.
44. A master's degree in library science.
45. Any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis.
46. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
52. Retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin.
54. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
58. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
59. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
63. City in northeast Pakistan.
64. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
65. United States artist who was a leader of the pop art movement (1930-1987).
68. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
70. Formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
73. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
74. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
75. A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
76. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
77. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
78. Insignificantly small.
80. An informal debt instrument.
83. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
85. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
87. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
88. A metal cleat on the bottom front of a horseshoe to prevent slipping.
91. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
92. Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand.
96. A state in northwestern North America.
98. A hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic.