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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. Not close together in time.
12. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
15. A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle.
16. Of a leaf or bean shape resembling the shape of kidney.
17. A woolen cap of Scottish origin.
18. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
19. One of the three Furies.
20. A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage.
22. The remaining parts of something that has been wrecked.
24. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys.
25. A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another.
26. Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals.
29. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
32. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
33. Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them.
34. Step on it.
35. Australasian kingfishers.
39. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
42. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.
44. Woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat.
46. A tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives.
49. Succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers.
52. Wading bird of South and Central America.
53. A custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child.
54. Attack with teargas.
57. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
58. A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees.
60. Formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy.
62. Coming next after the eighth and just before the tenth in position.
63. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
64. Any small branched yellow-flowered North American herb of the genus Krigia.
68. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.
69. Annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands.
73. A human limb.
74. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.
75. The process of exposing to air (so as to purify).
76. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
77. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian.
78. A river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.
79. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
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1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
2. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.
3. Wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse.
4. Of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture.
5. Big-eyed scad.
6. Lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland.
7. Someone to who a license is granted.
8. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
9. Formerly included in genus Cedrela.
10. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
11. A doctor's degree in dental medicine.
12. French romantic writer (1766-1817).
13. (folklore) A corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
14. Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm.
21. A parallelogram with four equal sides.
23. An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer.
27. 100 halers equal 1 koruna.
28. A port city in western Kenya on the northeastern shore of Lake Victoria.
30. A rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo).
31. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys.
36. The capital of Eritrea.
37. The longest river of Asia.
38. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
40. A genus of Ploceidae.
41. Typical geese.
43. A father or mother.
45. French cabaret singer (1915-1963).
47. A musician who plays the lute.
48. Pile of waste matter from coal mining etc.
50. A knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain).
51. A genus of Indriidae.
55. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt.
56. A nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries).
59. A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries.
61. A particular environment or walk of life.
65. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
66. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.
67. Type genus of the Amiidae.
70. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
71. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
72. Being one more than two.
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