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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. A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune.
12. Used of a single unit or thing.
15. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
16. Small genus of tropical evergreen trees or shrubs having pods like those of the acacia.
17. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
18. Type genus of the family Myacidae.
19. Informal terms for a meal.
21. A small cake leavened with yeast.
24. A religious sect founded in the United States in 1966.
26. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off.
28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
29. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
31. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce).
36. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
38. A public promotion of some product or service.
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
43. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
44. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.
45. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.
48. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.
49. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of North Africa.
52. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
55. A driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip.
57. Be abundant or plentiful.
59. A genus of orb-weaving spiders including common garden spiders and barn spiders.
61. (Arthurian legend) The battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded.
65. Tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit.
69. American prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942).
70. A crystalline metallic element not found in nature.
73. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
74. British informal term.
75. With eagerness.
77. Type genus of the Amiidae.
78. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
79. Genus of tropical hardwood timber trees.
80. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land.
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1. A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge.
2. Common Indian weaverbird.
3. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
4. A chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40.
5. That is to say.
6. Attain success or reach a goal.
7. Canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained.
8. Of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people.
9. A police officer who investigates crimes.
10. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.
11. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
12. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
13. An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
14. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).
20. A member of the Salish people in northwestern Washington.
22. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
23. A covered passageway.
25. Caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted.
27. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
30. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa.
32. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
33. Order by virtue of superior authority.
34. The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty.
35. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
37. (with `in') Guardianship over.
39. A master's degree in business.
40. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
42. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
46. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
47. Relating to or near the ulna.
50. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
51. The condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water).
53. Quandong trees.
54. The supreme commander of a fleet.
56. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.
58. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
60. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
62. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.
63. A gum used especially as a thickener or emulsifier.
64. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers.
66. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.
67. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.
68. A large bundle bound for storage or transport.
71. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
72. Bulky grayish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail.
76. Functioning correctly and ready for action.
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