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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically.
9. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
13. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
16. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.
17. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
18. The Fate who spins the thread of life.
19. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.
20. Evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with thick and colorful leathery leaves.
24. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
25. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.
26. Title used for a married Frenchwoman.
27. The space between two lines or planes that intersect.
29. The food served and eaten at one time.
32. Absence of systole.
33. Pearl oysters.
37. Estrangement from god.
38. Half the width of an em.
39. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
44. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
46. Any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers.
50. The sixth month of the civil year.
51. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
52. Of or relating to the spleen.
54. North American rat snakes.
57. Of or relating to or made of stone.
58. Of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the N Malay Peninsula and parts of the W Malay Archipelago.
59. An abundance of material possessions and resources.
60. 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.
61. Being nine more than forty.
62. The basic unit of money in Peru.
63. Casserole of eggplant and ground lamb with onion and tomatoes bound with white sauce and beaten eggs.
69. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
70. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
72. A short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play.
74. A state in midwestern United States.
75. A large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods.
79. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
83. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
86. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
87. (anatomy) A somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part.
90. Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
92. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
93. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
94. A slender double-reed instrument.
95. Not widely known.
96. The basic unit of money in Iran.
97. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
98. A city of central China.
99. On or toward the lee.
100. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
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1. Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916).
2. Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh.
3. Wish harm upon.
4. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
5. (informal) Of the highest quality.
6. Worthless people.
7. A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple.
8. The square of a body of any size of type.
9. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
10. Not disposed to cheat or defraud.
11. Black tropical American cuckoo.
12. The dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants.
13. Conforming to truth.
14. Be going to.
15. A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers).
21. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
22. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
23. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
28. Of or relating to the gonads.
30. A specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission.
31. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
34. Breathing in.
35. Made of fir or pine.
36. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
41. A Mid-Atlantic state.
42. A town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island west of Vancouver.
43. Common gray wild goose of Europe.
45. Order by virtue of superior authority.
47. East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder.
48. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
49. Offering little or no hope.
53. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
55. Husband of Elizabeth II of Great Britain (born 1921).
56. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition.
64. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
65. An upholstered seat for more than one person.
66. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
67. Waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls.
68. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers.
69. Be going to.
71. (trademark) An antacid.
72. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
73. Seed of a pea plant.
76. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
77. Obvious and dull.
78. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame.
80. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
81. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
82. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions.
84. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
85. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.
88. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
89. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur.
90. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
91. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
92. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
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