1. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
4. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
9. A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk.
13. White crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
18. Widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits.
19. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
20. A mountain range in northern Kashmir.
22. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
24. A graphical record of electrical activity of the brain.
25. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
26. The ninth month of the Moslem calendar.
27. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
29. True firs.
32. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
34. Small moths whose larvae spin silken tunnels and feed on stored food products.
39. An Eskimo hut.
43. Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force, as on a wave.
44. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
48. Full of silt.
49. Before noon.
50. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice).
51. Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk.
52. Originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites).
53. The extreme end of something.
55. Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture.
59. In the Roman calendar.
61. Spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth.
62. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
63. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
64. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
66. Decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs.
68. A light strong gray lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).
69. Necessary for relief or supply.
71. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
72. Xerophytic evergreen shrubs.
75. Fiddler crabs.
79. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
82. Mexican liquor made from fermented juices of an Agave plant.
85. German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927).
88. Any of various rich and elaborate cakes.
90. Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort.
92. Ctenophores lacking tentacles.
93. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).
94. Broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting.
96. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
97. Employed in accomplishing something.
98. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
99. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
100. (trademark) A type of inflatable air mattress.
101. The capital and largest city of Yemen.

1. Acute ulceration of the mucous membranes of the mouth or genitals.
2. A projectile that is fired from a gun.
3. Able to be converted into ready money.
4. 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.
5. The capital of Croatia.
6. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
7. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
9. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.
10. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
11. A human limb.
12. Not treated with lead.
13. One thousandth of a second.
14. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
15. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
21. (Lebanese) A finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat.
23. A public promotion of some product or service.
28. Separate by abscission.
30. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
31. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
33. An Old World reptile family of Sauria.
35. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
36. Intelligence derived from the interception and processing and analysis of foreign telemetry.
37. Speak carefully, with rising and falling pitch.
38. Lack of strength or vigor esp from illness.
40. A metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter.
41. A region of western India north of Bombay (bordering the Arabian Sea) where Gujarati is spoken.
42. A family of Ural-Altaic languages.
45. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared.
46. Choose and follow.
47. A chemical compound containing the azido group combined with an element or radical.
54. A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.
56. God of death.
57. A particular kind (as to appearance).
58. A state in midwestern United States.
60. Induce to have sex.
65. An acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants.
67. Killer whales.
68. One thousandth of a second.
70. Thorn apple.
73. (informal) Of the highest quality.
74. A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic.
76. Being in competition.
77. Fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense.
78. Obvious and dull.
80. A set of two similar things considered as a unit.
81. An inactive volcano in Sicily.
83. The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries.
84. An organization of independent states to promote international peace and security.
86. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
87. A quantity of no importance.
89. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
91. A branch of the Tai languages.
92. (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) Quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.
95. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.