1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
8. Being four more than ninety.
12. A city in northern India.
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. Avatar of Vishnu.
18. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
19. Characteristic of false pride.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
22. In or of the present month.
23. Remove from office.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
29. The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
31. Squash bugs.
33. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
37. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
39. Tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods.
43. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
44. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
46. A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
47. A cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie.
48. A stock or supply of foods.
51. Sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Mohammed during his life at Mecca and Medina.
52. A small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate.
54. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
56. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
57. The act of slowing down or falling behind.
58. 16 ounces.
60. Jordan's port.
64. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
66. Bar temporarily.
67. The visible part of a television transmission.
68. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
69. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
71. (in Scotland) A child.
73. A gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group.
74. A genus of evergreen climbers.
77. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
78. Ending in a sharp point.
81. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
83. A baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head.
88. Not elegant or graceful in expression.
91. The month following March and preceding May.
92. Herbs or shrubs.
95. Having leadership guidance.
96. A particular environment or walk of life.
97. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
99. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
100. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
101. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
102. In the Roman calendar.
103. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.

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. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
5. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
6. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
7. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
8. Being two more than ninety.
9. A high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line.
10. Afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement.
11. A doctor who practices veterinary medicine.
12. Italian physicist noted for his work on gases.
13. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India.
14. A growth in strength or number or importance.
15. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
25. Thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
27. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
28. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
30. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
32. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
34. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
35. A city of central Russia south of Moscow.
36. (Polynesian) An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.
38. Of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
40. (formal) A person who announces important news.
41. A metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables.
42. Being the only one.
45. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
49. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
50. Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940).
53. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
59. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
61. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
62. The eleventh month of the civil year.
63. A Mexican City just south of San Diego on the Lower California peninsula.
65. Of or relating to Chios.
70. A pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.
71. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
72. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid.
75. United States poet and critic (1916-1986).
76. 1 species.
79. 1 species.
80. South American cavy.
82. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
83. Mentally healthy.
84. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
85. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.
86. Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887).
87. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element.
89. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
90. The 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
93. A negative.
94. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
98. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.