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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. The nearest star to the sun.
11. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
15. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
16. Erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds.
17. On or toward the lee.
18. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).
20. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.
21. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue.
22. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
24. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
26. A natural talent.
28. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion.
30. One thousand periods per second.
32. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
33. A port city in western South Korea on the Yellow Sea.
37. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
42. The compass point midway between south and southeast.
43. Water frozen in the solid state.
44. A promontory in northern Morocco opposite the Rock of Gibraltar.
47. Covered with paving material.
50. A river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea.
52. A baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style.
54. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
55. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
57. Displeasing to the senses and morally revolting.
59. A sliver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum.
61. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically.
62. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
64. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
66. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
67. Noisy talk.
69. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.
72. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
74. Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood.
77. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
78. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
79. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.
81. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
82. Absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts).
83. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
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1. Footwear usually with wooden soles.
2. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
3. Most important element.
4. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
5. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
6. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.
7. Being two more than ninety.
8. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
9. The month following February and preceding April.
10. Cause to become awake or conscious.
11. The quarter of many North African cities in which the citadel is located.
12. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
13. A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells).
14. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.
19. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
23. (prefix) Bad or erroneous or lack of.
25. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
27. Type genus of the Alaudidae.
29. Dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill.
31. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
34. A program under which employees regularly accumulate shares and may ultimately assume control of the company.
35. Relating to bone or to the skeleton.
36. (of actions or states) Slightly short of or not quite accomplished.
38. Joint capital (with Riyadh) of Saudi Arabia.
39. Fallow deer.
40. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
41. An expression of greeting.
45. A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea.
46. A genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches).
48. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
49. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.
51. That is to say.
53. An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito.
56. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
58. A narrow republic surrounded by Senegal in West Africa.
60. Deciduous shrub of North America.
63. Jordan's port.
65. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
68. The act of delivering a blow with the foot.
70. A lyric poet.
71. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
73. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.
75. Informal abbreviation of `representative'.
76. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
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