1. A light touch or stroke.
4. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
8. Produced by a manufacturing process.
12. Not widely known.
16. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
17. A French abbot.
18. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
19. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
20. Common house and field crickets.
22. Small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib.
24. A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind.
25. City in northwestern Jordan.
27. Tangled in knots or snarls.
29. Emit long loud cries.
30. Being three in one.
31. A landlocked republic in northwestern Africa.
34. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
36. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
37. Complacently or inanely foolish.
39. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons).
43. Shrubby plant with aromatic grayish-green leaves used as a cooking herb.
46. A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.
47. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
49. Of or relating to or symptomatic of alexia.
51. Used of a single unit or thing.
52. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
57. Not fake or counterfeit.
59. National capital of Kiribati.
60. The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.
61. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
63. In the shape of a coil.
64. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia.
66. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
67. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
70. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
71. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
73. East Asian perennial herbs.
76. A inexpensive showy collectibles.
79. An ancient branch of the Semitic languages.
83. Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
84. Tropical Asiatic perennial herbs.
87. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
88. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
89. The brightest star in Virgo.
91. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
93. 10 grams.
94. A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
95. A woman of refinement.
96. Type genus of the Anatidae.
97. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
98. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

1. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500).
2. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
3. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.
4. Bringing death.
5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
6. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
7. The act of refusing a request.
8. One of the three Furies.
9. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
10. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
11. Eruption on a mucous membrane (as the inside of the mouth) occurring as a symptom of a disease.
12. Get or find back.
13. A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice.
14. Cause to ripen.
15. Become ground down or deteriorate.
21. Either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length.
23. Cause to be attached.
26. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
28. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
32. A collection of excerpts from a literary work.
33. The 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
35. United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934).
38. A town in north central Oklahoma.
40. A victory cheer.
41. One of the players on the line of scrimmage.
42. Tropical American shrub bearing edible acid red fruit resembling cherries.
44. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
45. A rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode.
48. The basic unit of money in Macao.
50. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
53. Indicating the most important performer or role.
54. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
55. A constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
56. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
58. A region and ancient country in the east of the Balkan Peninsula north of the Aegean Sea.
62. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
65. A swelling of the hock joint of a horse.
68. Being nine more than ninety.
69. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
72. A deep opening in the earth's surface.
74. Swedish oceanographer who recognized the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean currents (1874-1954).
75. Jordan's port.
77. (Greek mythology) The goddess of youth and spring.
78. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
80. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.
81. The sixth month of the civil year.
82. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.
85. Fiddler crabs.
86. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
87. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
90. An informal term for a father.
92. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
93. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.