1. (of music or art) New and of general appeal (especially among young people).
4. Advanced in years.
8. (prefix) Coming after.
12. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
16. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
17. An aromatic balsam.
18. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA).
19. Type genus of the Nepidae.
20. Someone who operates a barge.
22. Covered with beads of liquid.
24. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
26. Membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi.
29. A city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles).
31. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
33. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
36. Spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun.
39. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
40. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958).
44. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
45. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
46. A member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California.
48. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
50. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
52. A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys).
54. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. An associate degree in nursing.
57. Gone by.
58. An accidental happening.
59. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
62. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
64. A narrow street with walls on both sides.
66. Choose and follow.
68. A state in the western United States.
69. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.
70. Dignified manner or conduct.
71. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
75. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
77. Hoop that covers a wheel.
78. (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.
80. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
83. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
87. Take in, also metaphorically.
90. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
93. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
94. South African term for `boss'.
95. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
98. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
99. Type genus of the Ranidae.
100. Support resembling the rib of an animal.
103. Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.
105. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
106. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
107. State in northeastern India.
108. Dutch astronomer who proved that the galaxy is rotating and proposed the existence of the Oort cloud (1900-1992).
109. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.

1. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
3. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.
4. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
5. United States army officer and engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal (1858-1928).
6. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
7. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf.
8. A major god.
9. A severe or trying experience.
10. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
11. A slight amount or degree of difference.
12. In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals.
13. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
14. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
15. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders).
21. A power saw that has several parallel blades making simultaneous cuts.
23. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
27. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
28. The capital and chief port of Qatar.
30. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
32. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
34. A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia.
35. Used of a single unit or thing.
37. A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments.
38. United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981).
41. The cry made by sheep.
42. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
43. The retarding force of air friction on a moving object.
47. A clerk who marks data on a chart.
49. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
51. A discussion intended to produce an agreement.
53. The basic unit of money in Romania.
56. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
60. The residue that remains when something is burned.
61. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
63. A three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides.
65. Of or relating to or resembling a lobule.
67. Genus of European subshrubs or herbs having pink or purple or yellow solitary or clustered flowers.
72. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
73. Flowing in drops.
74. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
76. Tag the base runner to get him out.
79. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
81. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
82. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.
84. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
85. Obvious and dull.
86. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
88. Most important element.
89. A small cake leavened with yeast.
91. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
92. An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint.
96. An associate degree in applied science.
97. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
101. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
102. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.
104. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.