1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
8. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.
12. The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale).
16. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
17. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
18. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
19. The head of the Roman Catholic Church.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.
23. Traveling on horseback.
25. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
27. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') End v 1.
28. Goods or money obtained illegally.
29. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
31. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
33. Produce a literary work.
34. A dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit.
38. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
40. On or toward the lee.
43. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
46. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
47. The mints.
50. Fill by packing tightly.
52. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
54. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
56. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
57. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.
59. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
61. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.
63. (usually followed by `to') Full of eagerness.
65. Put to use.
67. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
68. Concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions.
72. Made of fir or pine.
73. Trees or shrubs having a milky juice.
75. United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1903- ).
77. German painter and engraver noted for his portraits.
80. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
82. Only the bowfins.
83. English essayist (1775-1834).
85. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
89. An artistic form of nonverbal communication.
90. Indicating the most important performer or role.
93. A Hindu prince or king in India.
94. Used of a single unit or thing.
95. Any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh.
97. Highly excited.
99. Tag the base runner to get him out.
100. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
101. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).
102. Tear or be torn violently.
103. Free from liquid or moisture.
104. A state in northwestern North America.

1. A card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box.
2. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
3. The highest level or degree attainable.
4. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
5. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
6. A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity or for testing conformity with a standard.
7. A large fleet.
8. Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.
9. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
10. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
11. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
12. Tropical trees having one-seeded fruit.
13. Tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae.
14. Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.
15. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
22. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
24. An impression that something might be the case.
26. A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).
30. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
32. A piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred.
35. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
36. United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999).
37. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
39. (India) Flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle.
41. A genus of Mustelidae.
42. French filmmaker (1908-1982).
44. Become gelatinous.
45. Sing in modulation.
48. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
49. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
51. Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity).
55. A pass between mountain peaks.
58. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants.
60. Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.
62. (law) A courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge in a trial that is held out of the jury's hearing.
64. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
66. (formerly) A horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door.
69. Highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic.
70. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits.
71. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.
74. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
76. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
78. Of or relating to Oman or its people.
79. Bordered by a line of things.
81. A surface burn.
84. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
86. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
87. Slightly open.
88. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant.
91. The longest division of geological time.
92. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
96. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
98. A ductile silvery-white ductile ferromagnetic trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.