1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
12. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
16. 100 puls equal 1 afghani.
17. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
18. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.
19. Make anew.
20. Manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.
22. As much as a teacup will hold.
24. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
25. (Roman mythology) God of love.
26. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.
29. Any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus.
30. An elaborate song for solo voice.
32. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
33. A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation.
37. (spoken slang) Unfashionable and boring.
41. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
46. Monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.
47. Music of southern Louisiana that combines French dance melodies with Caribbean music and blues.
49. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.
51. Water frozen in the solid state.
52. A stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune.
54. An inflammatory disease of connective tissue with variable features including fever and weakness and fatigability and joint pains and skin lesions on the face or neck or arms.
55. Wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology.
57. A congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip.
58. A major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
60. Squash bugs.
62. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
63. An architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice.
64. The amount a salary is increased.
67. Combined or joined to increase in size or quantity or scope.
68. A feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction.
70. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
72. The act of fighting.
76. (Norse mythology) God of thunder and rain and farming.
80. The chief source of beryllium.
83. Lower in esteem.
86. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
87. Not clearly understood or expressed.
91. Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation.
92. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
93. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
95. Gone by.
96. Used of a single unit or thing.
97. An advantageous purchase.
98. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
99. (British) Your grandmother.

1. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
2. A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal.
3. Any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers.
4. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
5. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
6. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
8. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
9. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
10. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly.
11. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
12. Type genus of the family Tridacnidae.
13. Stalk of a moss capsule.
14. Chief port of Yemen.
15. Capital and largest city of Italy.
21. The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid.
23. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
27. A strip of land projecting into a body of water.
28. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
31. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
34. (Judaism) A candelabrum with seven branches used in ceremonies to symbolize the seven days of creation.
35. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
36. Inclined to make war.
38. Any of several seeds that yield oil.
39. Make opalescent.
40. Filled with a great quantity.
42. An ancient city is southern Greece.
43. German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
44. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
45. The financial means whereby one lives.
48. An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole.
50. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
53. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
56. Become bony.
59. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
61. Goat grass.
65. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
66. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
69. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element.
71. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
73. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
74. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
75. A person who makes deceitful pretenses.
77. The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos.
78. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
79. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
81. Very dark black.
82. A feeling of intense anger.
84. An inlaid furniture decoration.
85. Type genus of the Amiidae.
88. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
89. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
90. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
94. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.