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1. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
4. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation.
9. A Loloish language.
13. Inquire about.
16. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
17. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
18. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
19. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
20. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
21. The capital of Morocco.
22. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
23. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
24. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
26. Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life.
28. An intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or low-birth-weight or seriously ill newborn.
30. Before noon.
31. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
33. A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
35. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
37. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
40. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
41. A very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses.
44. Refrain from voting.
47. A sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived.
49. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
52. The fifth month of the civil year.
53. Humble request for help.
55. A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola.
56. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
57. An implement used to erase something.
59. Be teeming, be abuzz.
61. A farewell remark.
63. A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.
64. Thick like cream.
66. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
70. A colloidal gel in which water is the dispersion medium.
73. A quantity of no importance.
74. Either of two large muscles of the chest.
75. (anatomy) Any structure that resembles a horn in shape.
76. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
78. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering of the eyeball.
81. (Norse mythology) God of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature.
85. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
89. Husband of Elizabeth II of Great Britain (born 1921).
90. Oil palms.
92. Type genus of the Ranidae.
93. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
94. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
96. An informal term for a father.
97. Extremely robust.
98. Being one more than one.
99. One who works hard at boring tasks.
100. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
101. The clock time given by a clock carried on board a spacecraft.
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1. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
2. Cry plaintively.
3. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.
4. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
5. Wild ginger.
6. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
7. Jordan's port.
8. Youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali.
9. A river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela.
10. A Dravidian language spoken in southern India.
11. Of or relating to or supporting Hinduism.
12. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
13. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar.
14. A fraudulent business scheme.
15. God of love and erotic desire.
25. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania.
27. Relating to or consisting of or producing or resembling milk.
29. Wild goose having white adult plumage.
32. The holy city of Shiite Muslims.
34. Light teasing repartee.
36. Belonging to or governing a diocese n.
38. Of or relating to a molecule made up of two atoms.
39. A group of islands in the West Indies.
42. A town in western Washington.
43. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southeastern Asia.
45. A bachelor's degree in science.
46. (often followed by `for') Ardently or excessively desirous.
48. Seed again or anew.
50. Any of several large shaggy-maned humped bovids having large heads and short horns.
51. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
54. Seed of a pea plant.
58. Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters).
60. Make a marcel in a woman's hair.
62. Freetail bats.
65. Relating to or characteristic of the Moors.
66. Wild ginger.
67. A state in midwestern United States.
68. Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.
69. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
71. Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing.
72. A city in northwestern Germany and an important Baltic port.
77. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
79. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
80. The dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125.
82. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
83. Remove with or as if with a ladle.
84. No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
85. A quantity of no importance.
86. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.
87. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
88. Unpleasantly cool and humid.
91. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
95. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
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