1. An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans.
4. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).
8. A specific instance of feeling hopeful.
12. An unstable meson produced as the result of a high-energy particle collision.
16. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
17. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
18. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
19. A river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea.
20. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
21. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.
22. The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food.
23. The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale).
24. At risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant.
26. Traveling by foot.
29. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
31. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
32. American novelist (1909-1955).
34. Mar or spoil the appearance of.
36. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
40. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.
41. A notable achievement.
42. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
43. A clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped.
44. Someone who drives racing cars at high speeds.
47. A Buddhist who has attained nirvana.
49. A representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus.
51. Call forth.
52. 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.
55. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
56. (psychiatry) An unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.
59. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
60. King of Wessex.
61. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
62. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
63. Being one more than fifty.
64. Towards the side away from the wind.
68. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
70. An elaborate song for solo voice.
71. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
72. Absence of the pupil in an eye.
78. An outline or synopsis of a play.
81. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.
85. Any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin.
86. Align anew or better.
88. A bachelor's degree in architecture.
90. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
91. God of the Underworld.
92. At or constituting a border or edge.
94. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
95. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
96. The sixth month of the civil year.
97. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
98. Founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910).

1. The face of a timepiece.
2. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
3. Flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules.
4. A plain plinth that supports a wall.
5. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household.
6. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
7. Small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump.
8. Tea tortrix.
9. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.
10. A defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks in 479 BC.
11. Take in solid food.
12. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
13. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
14. An onerous or difficult concern.
15. A connecting point at which several lines come together.
25. German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859).
27. Coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position.
28. A legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body.
30. Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case.
33. Made of packed earth or gravel.
35. Relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants.
37. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
38. Moths whose larvae are cutworms.
39. Aroused or activated.
45. Coffee trees.
46. Re-establish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.
48. The French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
50. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
53. Something causes misery or death.
54. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
57. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
58. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.
63. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
65. Type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama.
66. Relating to or like or divided into areolae.
67. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.
69. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
73. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees.
74. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
75. To some (great or small) extent.
76. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
77. A confusion of voices and other sounds.
79. (of a young animal) Abandoned by its mother and raised by hand.
80. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.
82. One-hundredth of a right angle.
83. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
84. A carriage consisting of two wheels and calash top.
87. God of the earth.
89. How long something has existed.
93. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.