1. A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia.
4. French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920).
9. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
13. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
16. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
17. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
18. An informal term for a father.
19. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
20. Black tropical American cuckoo.
21. United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931).
23. In a foreign country.
25. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats.
27. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).
29. All the plant and animal life of a particular region.
30. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
32. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
34. A colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling.
35. United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886).
37. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
39. By bad luck.
41. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
42. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
45. Small genus of Eurasian herbs.
48. Fearless and daring.
50. French revolutionary who was prominent in the early days of the French Revolution (1749-1791).
54. A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.
55. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
57. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
58. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
59. Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
60. Any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season.
61. Convert ordinary language into code.
65. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
66. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.
67. Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules.
68. A distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list.
71. (historically) A member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire.
73. Informal terms for a mother.
74. An organism especially a bacterium that requires air or free oxygen for life.
77. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
79. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
80. Employed in accomplishing something.
83. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
86. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
88. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
92. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
95. Largest known toad species.
97. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
98. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.
99. (linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed.
100. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone).
101. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
102. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
103. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
104. Male red deer.
105. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

1. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
2. Type genus of the Ranidae.
3. Small tropical flea.
4. Bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream.
5. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
6. Of inferior or mixed breed.
7. A song that was formerly popular.
8. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
9. A particular environment or walk of life.
10. An informal term for a father.
11. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
12. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
13. Drive away by crying "shoo!".
14. Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom.
15. A car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors.
22. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatures).
24. Humorously vulgar.
26. Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.
28. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
31. A city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea.
33. Tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit.
36. Of a leaf shape.
38. A gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number).
40. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear.
43. Before noon.
44. United States writer (1871-1900).
46. United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).
47. King of the Huns.
49. United States lyricist who collaborated on musicals with Frederick Loewe (1918-1986).
51. The right to enter.
52. Duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females.
53. A particular environment or walk of life.
56. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.
62. Not clear.
63. A city in northwestern Syria.
64. A region of northeastern Italy on the Adriatic.
69. Characteristic of a mob.
70. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.
72. Payment due by the recipient on delivery.
75. The cry made by sheep.
76. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
78. Melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh.
79. Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger.
81. An area that includes seats for several people.
82. A plant disease caused by the ergot fungus.
84. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
85. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.
87. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
89. An event (or course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future.
90. God of love and erotic desire.
91. 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.
93. The network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function.
94. A hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland that controls the degree of pigmentation in melanocytes.
96. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
97. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.