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5. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
9. A caress with the lips.
13. Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar.
16. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.
17. (computer science) A unit for measuring the execution speed of computers.
18. The bottom of a shoe or boot.
19. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism.
20. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
21. South American plant cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
23. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
25. A city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea.
27. A woman who tells fortunes.
29. French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel Prizes.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. The largest city and principal port of New Zealand.
34. A telegram sent abroad.
37. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
39. Any orchid of the genus Disa.
40. A slender double-reed instrument.
41. A son who has the same first name as his father.
42. A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived.
44. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.
48. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel.
53. A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
55. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
56. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
58. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
59. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
63. The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean.
65. Type genus of the family Ostreidae.
66. The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.
67. No longer concealed.
69. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
70. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.
71. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
73. Carry out or participate in an activity.
74. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
77. A roll of tobacco for smoking.
79. A radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons.
80. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
82. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
84. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
86. A now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera.
90. A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open.
93. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
95. Relating to the Urdu language.
97. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
98. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.
99. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.
100. South African term for `boss'.
101. A light touch or stroke.
102. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.
103. Colony of the United Kingdom located on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain.
104. A Loloish language.
105. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. 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.
2. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
3. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
4. Individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell.
5. An annual award for outstanding achievements in television.
6. Perennial herb of East India to Polynesia and Australia cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch.
7. Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants.
8. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
9. African mahogany trees.
10. That is to say.
11. (of champagne) Moderately dry.
12. (usually in the plural) Pants for casual wear.
13. Brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes.
14. At full speed.
15. (music) Brought to correct pitch.
22. A Russian river.
24. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
26. (informal) Of the highest quality.
28. (British) A simple board game in which players move counters according to the throw of dice.
31. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
33. Being one more than one hundred.
35. The fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.
36. United States film actor (1899-1957).
38. The basic unit of money in Nigeria.
43. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
45. King of the Huns.
46. A person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career.
47. Any orchid of the genus Aerides.
49. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
50. French novelist.
51. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
52. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree.
54. Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
57. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
60. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
61. (slang) A gangster's pistol.
62. A steep rugged rock or cliff.
64. A motley assortment of things.
68. A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed).
72. Climbing vine native to China.
75. Any of various deciduous or evergreen ornamental shrubs of the genus Abelia having opposite simple leaves and cymes of small white or pink or purplish flowers.
76. Of the appetites and passions of the body.
78. A kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term).
79. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
81. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with gray furry ears and coat.
83. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann.
84. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
85. A rounded thickly curled hairdo.
87. Waterproofed canvas.
88. Stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces.
89. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
91. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
92. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
94. An enclosed space.
96. 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.
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