1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
4. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
9. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
13. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. Of time long past.
18. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
19. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series.
20. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
21. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
23. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
25. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
27. An archaic name for Easter or Passover.
29. Of or relating to or produced by or being a gene.
30. (Old Testament) Samson's Philistine mistress who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength.
32. A disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches.
34. A capacitance unit equal to one billion farads.
37. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
39. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
40. A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels.
46. A local church community.
47. An accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages (especially of the embryo).
50. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
51. Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks.
52. Distance measured in the aggregate number of yards.
55. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
56. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
58. Either extremity of something that has length.
62. Disabled in the feet or legs.
63. A state in southeastern United States.
65. Stern foremost or backward.
69. Written on a typewriter.
71. Goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis.
72. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.
73. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
75. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people.
80. Metal supports for logs in a fireplace.
83. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
86. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.
87. Minced cooked meat or fish coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried in deep fat.
90. Any plant of the genus Erica.
91. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
92. A decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping.
94. Any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns.
95. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
96. A persistent attacker.
97. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.

1. A large mountain system in south-central Europe.
2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.
3. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
4. Gopher tortoises.
5. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
6. Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit.
7. Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal.
8. Squash bugs.
9. Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean.
10. An informal term for a father.
11. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
12. (South African) A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.
13. A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples).
14. The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group.
15. A written order directing a bank to pay money.
22. New Guinea echidnas.
24. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
26. (biology) Nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism.
28. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. Violently urging on by whipping or flogging.
33. A state in midwestern United States.
35. The property of being both obvious and offensive.
36. Abounding in or covered with ferns.
38. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
41. Type genus of the Ranidae.
42. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
43. A nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas.
44. Decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold.
45. Being wet with perspiration.
48. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
49. United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914).
53. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
54. A British doctorate.
57. A city in northern India.
59. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
60. An associate degree in applied science.
61. Goat grass.
64. A place where the wicked are punished after death.
65. Gopher tortoises.
66. The seventh and last day of the week.
67. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficient blood supply.
68. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
70. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds.
74. A Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation.
76. Owing or owed feudal allegiance and service.
77. A storyteller in West Africa.
78. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
79. Make less active or intense.
81. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
82. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.
83. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
84. By bad luck.
85. Formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross.
88. Term of address for a man.
89. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
93. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.