1. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
4. American Revolutionary patriot.
9. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
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. Of a pale purple color.
18. The back side of the neck.
19. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
20. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
21. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
22. The state of being split or cleft.
24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
26. American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry.
28. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
29. In bed.
31. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
32. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
33. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.
36. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts.
39. The act of flipping a coin.
43. Of or relating to or involving an area.
44. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.
48. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
49. A state in the Rocky Mountains.
50. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
51. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
52. A sock with a separation for the big toe.
54. A mouth or mouthlike opening.
55. A Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman.
57. The content of cognition.
61. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women.
62. Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye.
63. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
64. Any of various small biting flies.
67. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
70. Pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies).
73. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
76. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
77. A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific.
79. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
81. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
83. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
86. Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself.
90. English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992).
92. Escape, either physically or mentally.
93. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
95. A small cake leavened with yeast.
96. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
98. Suggestive of the supernatural.
101. Tag the base runner to get him out.
102. A manner of performance.
103. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
104. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
105. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

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. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
5. Negotiate the terms of an exchange.
6. Web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas.
7. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.
8. A burn cause by hot liquid or steam.
9. Belonging to some prior time.
10. Very light colored.
11. South American cavy.
12. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
13. Weight to be borne or conveyed.
14. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
15. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
23. United States architect (born in 1925).
25. Genus of tall smooth herbs of forested mountains of Europe and Asia minor.
27. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
30. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
34. Used of idealized country life.
35. The bottom of a sea or ocean.
37. A South African plant of the genus Othonna having smooth often fleshy leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
38. A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia.
40. In operation or operational.
41. Indonesian statesman who seized power from Sukarno in 1967 (born in 1921).
42. Of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people.
45. An Asian country under the control of China.
46. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
47. The Destroyer.
53. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
56. Green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts.
58. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
59. Superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins.
60. A New England state.
65. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
66. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
68. Ark shells.
69. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
71. A Russian river.
72. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
74. Any fern of the genus Osmunda.
75. A unit of information equal to 1024 bytes.
78. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
80. A native or inhabitant of Iran.
82. Yellow-fever mosquitos.
83. A chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. Jordan's port.
87. Of or being the lowest female voice.
88. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
89. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
91. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
94. The universal time coordinated time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body.
97. A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes.
99. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
100. A Loloish language.