1. An unforeseen obstacle.
4. Informal terms for money.
8. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
12. A state in the western United States.
16. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
18. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
19. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
20. Mucus-secreting membrane lining all body cavities or passages that communicate with the exterior.
22. A member of the eastern branch of the Sioux.
24. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
25. Capital of modern Macedonia.
27. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
29. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.
32. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
33. Long tubular cell peculiar to xylem.
37. The battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.
39. Avatar of Vishnu.
40. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Bahama Islands or their inhabitants.
44. A quantity of no importance.
48. United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954).
49. Resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible.
50. (cosmology) The original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements.
51. An appreciable consequence (especially a lessening).
52. Elevated open grassland in southern Africa.
54. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
57. Wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography.
58. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.
59. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
61. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
62. The 13th letter of the Greek alphabet.
66. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
67. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
69. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.
72. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
73. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
74. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
78. Turned outward.
81. American dwarf fan palms.
83. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
87. Join the military.
88. Feeling or showing extreme anger.
90. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
91. The Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain.
92. Of or relating to exocrine glands or their secretions.
94. A genus of Mustelidae.
95. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).
96. Having deserted a cause or principle.
97. Set down according to a plan.

1. Tall New Zealand timber tree.
2. Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox.
3. Related to or located at the back.
4. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
5. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
6. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
7. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort.
8. Close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear (usually in the plural).
9. Informal terms for a meal.
10. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
11. Hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.
12. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
13. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
14. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
15. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
21. (India) Not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society.
23. The eleventh month of the civil year.
26. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
28. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
30. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
31. An antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections.
34. Extremely hungry.
35. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
36. An Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum.
38. At or in or to any place.
41. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.
42. English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812).
43. Large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn.
45. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
46. Decree or designate beforehand.
47. A meter that measures the flow of electrical current in amperes.
53. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
55. A white trivalent metallic element.
56. A unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter.
60. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
63. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.
64. Someone overly fond of making puns.
65. Omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next).
68. The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level.
70. (Norse mythology) A wonderful smith.
71. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
75. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
76. A crime syndicate in the United States.
77. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.
79. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
80. 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.
82. A large mass of ice floating at sea.
84. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
85. Little known Kamarupan languages.
86. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
89. Towards the side away from the wind.
93. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts.