1. Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities.
5. Any evergreen in the southern hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed.
13. A fastener for a door or lid.
17. American novelist (1909-1955).
18. Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed.
19. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
20. English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (born in 1907).
21. A condition yielding nothing of value.
22. Type genus of the Anatidae.
23. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
25. Genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers.
27. A plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime.
29. Tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm.
31. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
33. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
34. An excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
38. The eleventh month of the civil year.
40. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
45. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
48. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
50. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
51. An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose.
53. Relating to the veins of plants.
54. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
55. Using the voice.
59. Relating to or included in the zodiac.
62. Make amendments to.
63. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically).
65. The capital and largest city of Norway.
66. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
68. Offering fun and gaiety.
69. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid.
70. Any of various small biting flies.
72. Stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water.
73. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
75. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
77. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
79. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.
80. Distance measured in miles.
84. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
86. The act of arousing.
89. (Greek mythology) Son of Daedalus.
90. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
91. English writer of stories for children (1882-1956).
92. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
94. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
95. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
96. The 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
97. The highest level or degree attainable.
98. (Babylonian) The sky god.

1. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.
2. An active and efficient cause.
3. A natural body passageway.
4. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
5. A radioactive metallic element that is similar to tellurium and bismuth.
6. Using speech rather than writing.
7. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
8. Front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere.
9. Alcoholic drink from fermented cider (`cider' and `cyder' are European (especially British) usage for the fermented beverage).
10. Black tropical American cuckoo.
11. Climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes.
12. A gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws.
13. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.
14. God of fire.
15. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
16. A city in Tuscany.
24. The comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment.
26. Being one more than fifty.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy.
32. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
35. Bring order and organization to.
36. (bridge) A bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand).
37. (Arthurian legend) One of the knights of the Round Table.
39. A benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass.
41. Quibbling over insignificant details.
42. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
43. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
44. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
46. A thermionic tube having two electrodes.
47. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
49. A penicillinase-resistant form of penicillin (trade name Nafcil) used (usually in the form of its sodium salt) to treat infections caused by penicillin-resistant strains of staphylococci.
52. A bitter alkaloid extracted from chinchona bark.
56. A light touch or stroke.
57. A person forced to flee from home or country.
58. Genus of beetles whose grubs feed mainly on roots of plants.
60. A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey.
61. Needless warnings.
64. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
67. Type genus of the Otariidae.
71. American Revolutionary patriot.
74. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.
76. A small cake leavened with yeast.
78. The distinctive form in which a thing is made.
79. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
81. An elaborate song for solo voice.
82. Any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae.
83. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.
85. An anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months.
86. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
87. A transuranic element.
88. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
93. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.