1. A fraudulent business scheme.
5. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
9. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. A federally chartered savings bank.
16. The basic unit of money in Botswana.
17. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
18. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
19. The month following March and preceding May.
20. Toward the mouth or oral region.
21. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.
23. A city in central Illinois on the Illinois River.
25. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
27. (Judaism) A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
28. Small deciduous Asiatic tree bearing large red or orange edible astringent fruit.
29. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
30. Type genus of the Majidae.
31. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
33. Chief port of Yemen.
37. (informal) Subject to accident or chance or change.
38. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
47. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
49. Genus of Old World tropical herbs.
52. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
53. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
55. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
56. A major god.
57. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
58. Interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by dint of'.
59. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
61. A block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling.
63. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
65. An associate degree in applied science.
66. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
67. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
70. A city of central China.
77. Oil palms.
81. (Akkadian) Father of the gods and consort of Tiamat.
83. Tastelessly showy.
86. Lower in esteem.
87. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
88. A condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed.
90. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
91. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
93. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
95. A local computer network for communication between computers.
96. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
97. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
98. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws.
99. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').

1. English potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827).
2. French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel Prizes.
3. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
4. A woman of refinement.
5. The last (12th) month of the year.
6. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
7. Not in action or at work.
8. Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
9. A civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt.
10. A public promotion of some product or service.
11. Wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs.
12. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.
13. The capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates.
14. A transient variation in voltage or current.
15. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers.
22. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
24. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
26. An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept.
32. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines.
34. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
35. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
36. A white fatty substance that forms a medullary sheath around the axis cylinder of some nerve fibers.
39. A country north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea.
40. A lion-headed goddess.
41. The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another.
42. Any plant of the genus Eryngium.
43. A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata.
44. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.
45. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
46. A Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s.
48. The unit of frequency.
50. A soft silvery metallic element.
51. A quantity of no importance.
54. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
60. A small cake leavened with yeast.
62. City in Sudan.
64. An armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band.
65. Not in action or at work.
68. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
69. 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal.
71. That is to say.
72. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
73. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
74. Tropical tree of Central America and West Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white flowers.
75. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
76. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955.
78. Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight.
79. California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers.
80. A French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel.
82. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
84. Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge.
85. Located at or near the back of an animal.
89. A unit of pressure.
92. A state in midwestern United States.
94. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.