1. The sign language used in the United States.
4. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.
9. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.
13. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates the function of the thyroid gland.
16. A unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm.
17. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious.
18. Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm.
19. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
20. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
21. Someone whose business is advertising.
22. The highest level or degree attainable.
23. An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning.
24. A complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds.
26. Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war).
28. Having or furnished with a mast.
30. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).
32. A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security.
34. A genus of Bothidae.
36. Characteristic of the classical artistic and literary traditions.
38. The capital of Western Samoa.
39. (of disease or anything resembling a disease) Constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality.
43. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
46. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
47. Slightly open.
48. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
49. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
51. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
53. A colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water.
56. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
59. An advanced law degree.
60. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.
61. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction.
62. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
64. A framework that supports climbing plants.
67. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
69. A resident of Iowa.
70. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol in the blood.
72. God of the Underworld.
74. (Greek mythology) The brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus.
76. Very dark black.
79. A state in midwestern United States.
80. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
83. A quantity of no importance.
85. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
87. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
89. Used of mouth or eyes.
91. A native of ancient Troy.
93. Perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning.
94. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
95. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
97. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
98. A European river.
99. (prefix) In front of or before in space.
100. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
101. Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue.

1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
2. One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam.
3. A siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction.
4. The cry made by sheep.
5. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudinal slits.
6. Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru.
7. At full speed.
8. The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean.
9. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).
10. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
11. Commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison.
12. Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing.
13. Steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock.
14. Having a smooth, gleaming surface.
15. A vast multitude.
25. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
27. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
29. An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.
31. A New England state.
33. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
35. A driver who exceeds the safe speed limit.
37. Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority.
40. Chief of the Vanir.
41. In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock.
42. A state of anticipation of sexuality.
44. United States minimalist painter (born in 1936).
45. United States singer who appeared in several musical comedies (1909-1984).
50. Softly bright or radiant.
52. Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.
54. A pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano).
55. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).
57. (in golf) The standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
63. A person given to excessive complaints and crying.
65. Germanic barbarian leader who ended the western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493).
66. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.
68. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified.
71. Open again or anew.
72. Most important element.
73. A port city in southwestern Iran.
75. Done or occurring in a brief period of time.
77. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.
78. Relating to or near the ulna.
81. Capital and largest city of Italy.
82. Clean or orderly.
83. An honorary degree in science.
84. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
86. A nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine.
88. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology.
90. The compass point that is midway between north and northeast.
92. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
96. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.