1. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
4. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
9. The act of scanning.
13. A doctor's degree in education.
16. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
17. Lower in esteem.
18. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something.
19. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman.
20. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
21. A position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it.
22. A French abbot.
23. The month following July and preceding September.
24. A full skirt with a gathered waistband.
26. Swelling from excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue.
28. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
32. (Greek mythology) The father of Odysseus.
34. 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.
36. A state in the eastern United States.
38. A Russian river.
40. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
41. A state in midwestern United States.
42. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
43. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
46. Deeply moved.
50. An anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images.
53. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
54. Sea catfishes.
55. A college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga.
56. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
58. A vigorous blow.
59. Having a toe or toes of a specified kind.
60. The number from which the subtrahend is subtracted.
63. Trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits.
66. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.
68. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.
69. Affecting things past.
70. French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793).
74. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
76. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
78. Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace.
79. Small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings.
82. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulating and storing and retrieving and classifying recorded information.
83. In bed.
85. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
86. United States writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947).
89. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
93. Natural qualities or talents.
96. A fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar).
98. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
99. A defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
100. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
102. Type genus of the Rutaceae.
103. In or of the present month.
104. A negative.
105. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
106. A city in northwestern Syria.
107. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.

1. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
2. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
3. Make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird.
4. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women).
5. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
6. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
7. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
8. In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
9. A fraudulent business scheme.
10. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
11. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential).
12. Necessary for relief or supply.
13. Order by virtue of superior authority.
14. A tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game.
15. Remove gas from.
25. A state in the western United States.
27. Stain (furniture) black to make it look like ebony.
29. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
33. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
35. A member of the Athapaskan people living in northwestern California.
37. Small genus of deciduous West Indian trees or shrubs.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
44. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
45. (informal) Very good.
47. Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose.
48. The act of passing from one state or place to the next.
49. The capital and largest city of Iran.
51. Any broad thin expanse or surface.
52. Informal terms for a (young) woman.
57. Related on the mother's side.
61. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs.
62. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
64. A poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare.
65. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits.
67. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
71. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
72. An ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck.
73. Native to Australia.
74. Order by virtue of superior authority.
75. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
77. A white or colorless mineral (BaSO4).
78. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group.
80. Jordan's port.
81. The French defeated the Austrian and Prussian troops in 1792 (with a famous cannonade from the French artillery).
84. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
87. A Loloish language.
88. The twelfth month of the civil year.
89. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
90. Very fertile.
91. A city in the Asian part of Russia.
92. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
94. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
95. A branch of the Tai languages.
97. A period of time spent sleeping.
101. A radioactive element of the actinide series.