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).
5. Gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation.
13. A fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait and Southern Yemen and Yemen.
17. A tiny or scarcely detectable amount.
18. In a causal fashion.
19. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god.
20. Implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion.
21. The capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country.
22. A cyst on the underside of the tongue.
24. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.
26. A partly sheltered anchorage.
27. Russian choreographer (1834-1905).
28. Generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue.
30. Treated with wax.
32. 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.
37. An associate degree in nursing.
38. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
41. Badly timed.
43. The bill in a restaurant.
45. Half the width of an em.
48. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
49. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
51. A city in southeastern Spain.
54. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.
55. A long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma.
57. The intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat.
59. A genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.
61. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.
62. Of or relating to a directionless magnitude.
65. Having leadership guidance.
66. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.
68. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
70. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
74. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
75. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
78. Upright deciduous plant with crimson pods and seeds.
81. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
85. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
86. A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese.
89. A cadenced trot executed by the horse in one spot.
91. The 21st letter of the Greek alphabet.
92. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water.
93. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
95. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
96. Take in solid food.
97. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.
98. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
99. (British) A linear measure of 16.5 feet.

1. Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves.
2. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
3. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
4. Small genus of deciduous West Indian trees or shrubs.
5. The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
6. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
7. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
8. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
9. Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968).
10. By bad luck.
11. A metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter.
12. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).
13. Occurring at or forming an end or termination.
14. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.
15. A Loloish language.
16. Speaking a Slavic language.
23. A genus of Indriidae.
25. An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.).
29. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
31. The stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle.
33. Timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial.
34. Having seven units or components.
35. Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.
36. A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes.
39. The Latin name for England.
40. A vigorous blow.
42. United States labor leader who was the first president of the AFL-CIO (1894-1980).
44. United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914).
46. East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry.
47. The month following April and preceding June.
50. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
52. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
53. 100 puls equal 1 afghani.
56. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
58. 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.
60. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
63. Tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly.
64. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
67. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
69. A small cake leavened with yeast.
71. Squash bugs.
72. Wood of a larch tree.
73. God of wealth and love.
76. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
77. Anything that serves as an enticement.
79. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
80. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
82. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
83. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
84. A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element.
87. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
88. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
90. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
94. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.