1. Atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward.
5. The men who man a ship or aircraft.
9. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
13. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
16. The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid.
17. Any of the Hindu sacred writing.
18. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
19. A small piece of cloth.
20. (British) Diesel oil used in cars and lorries with diesel engines (from d(iesel) e(ngine) r(oad) v(ehicle)).
21. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
23. Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth.
24. Of or relating to or involving an area.
26. Regional and archaic.
28. A drama set to music.
30. Tending to speak irritably.
32. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
34. (commerce) The period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange).
38. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilaginous substances.
42. A colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube.
43. A state in northwestern North America.
48. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
51. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
52. Unable to move or resist motion.
53. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
55. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
58. Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948).
59. A rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo).
62. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
63. Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries.
64. Sweet liqueur made from wine and brandy flavored with plum or peach or apricot kernels and bitter almonds.
66. A Loloish language.
69. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
70. A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia.
73. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa.
75. A doctor's degree in religion.
76. A priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome.
77. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
78. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
80. A substance produced by the hypothalamus that is capable of accelerating the secretion of a given hormone by the anterior pituitary gland.
81. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
83. A public promotion of some product or service.
84. Type genus of the Sciaenidae.
90. Toward the mouth or oral region.
94. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
95. A short introductory essay preceding the text of a book.
98. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
99. The act of using.
100. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
102. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
104. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
105. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
106. The third canonical hour.
107. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
108. A doctor's degree in education.
109. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth.

1. An ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center.
2. At any time.
3. Indian nun and missionary (born in Albania) dedicated to helping the poor in India (1910-1997).
4. A port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river.
5. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
6. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
7. Make understand.
8. English tennis player who won may women's singles titles (born in 1945).
9. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
10. A genus of Ploceidae.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
13. An instinctive motive.
14. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
15. A city in northern India.
25. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.
27. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
29. Large African antelope with long straight nearly upright horns.
31. The 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
33. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
35. Pertaining to or located on or near the seacoast.
36. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
37. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
39. A graphic character used in ideography.
40. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
41. Of or relating to antennae.
44. A white trivalent metallic element.
45. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
46. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
47. Being one more than fifty.
49. Having the slant of a bevel.
50. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
54. Cheeselike food made of curdled soybean milk.
56. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
57. Lower in esteem.
60. United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932).
61. Made of fir or pine.
65. Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness.
67. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville.
68. The sixth month of the Hindu calendar.
71. The waging of armed conflict against an enemy.
72. The rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit.
74. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
79. Show a response or a reaction to something.
82. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
85. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
86. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
87. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
88. A radioactive transuranic element.
89. Dearly loved.
90. In operation or operational.
91. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
92. In bed.
93. Two items of the same kind.
96. A mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues.
97. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
101. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
103. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.