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1. A widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells.
4. City in the Transvaal.
12. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
15. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
16. A plant of the genus Valeriana having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or ink flowers.
17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
18. A pass between mountain peaks.
19. (Greek mythology) One of the three Graces.
20. Strike with disgust or revulsion.
22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
24. The elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point.
26. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
27. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
30. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.
32. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
33. A river that rises in central Germany and flows north to join the Elbe River.
35. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
38. The floating wreckage of a ship.
42. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
46. Seed of a pea plant.
47. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
49. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.
52. Submerged freshwater perennials.
54. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
55. Any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia.
57. An intricately connected system of things or people.
59. (Japan) Ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword.
61. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade.
62. Not widely known.
63. Spiritual being attendant upon God.
66. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.
69. A telegram sent abroad.
73. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
75. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
77. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
78. A container.
79. A small family of tunicates in the class Thaliacea.
81. Being two more than fifty.
82. Late time of life.
83. A great raja.
84. Water frozen in the solid state.
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1. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.
2. Become ground down or deteriorate.
3. Food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing.
4. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives.
5. A motley assortment of things.
6. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.
7. A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands.
8. Small genus of Australian shrubs or trees.
9. The basic unit of money in Iran.
10. A state in midwestern United States.
11. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
12. An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy.
13. An inflammatory swelling or sore.
14. South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.
21. English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899).
23. Deciduous shrub of North America.
25. An official language of the Republic of South Africa.
28. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
29. Related to or located at the back.
31. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
34. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
36. Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color.
37. French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875).
39. The brightest star in Virgo.
40. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.
41. A Nilotic language.
43. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
44. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
45. German organist and contrapuntist (1685-1750).
48. An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose.
50. God of death.
51. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
53. A person of unquestioning obedience.
56. Enchanter's nightshade.
58. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
60. A large fleet.
64. Horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits.
65. A member of a formerly tribal people in south central India.
67. Amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain.
68. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
70. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
71. Concerning those not members of the clergy.
72. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York.
74. The cry made by sheep.
76. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
80. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
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