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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. Bubble shells.
12. A federally chartered savings bank.
15. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
16. Housing that someone is living in.
17. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
18. Tag the base runner to get him out.
19. Being nine more than forty.
20. Characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality.
22. United States writer and social critic (1817-1862).
24. Relating to the blood vessels or blood.
26. A hard brittle blue-gray or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals.
29. Minor or subordinate.
31. An island northwest of Wales.
35. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
38. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.
39. Marked for certain death.
40. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
41. Classification used for 5 species of terrestrial ferns usually placed in other genera.
44. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
45. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.
46. A city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal.
48. (informal) Informed about the latest trends.
49. An associate degree in applied science.
52. The sixth month of the civil year.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
57. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
59. Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel.
62. Any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems.
66. Cynipid gall wasps, chiefly affecting oaks.
69. A wind instrument.
70. A cushion on a throne for a prince in India.
73. A vigorous blow.
74. By bad luck.
76. A former copper coin of Pakistan.
77. A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images.
78. (Akkadian) Mother of the gods and consort of Apsu.
79. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.
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1. The highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music.
2. (informal usage) A general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction.
3. Alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae.
4. A farewell remark.
5. A member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India.
6. The square of a body of any size of type.
7. A dissolute man in fashionable society.
8. Water frozen in the solid state.
9. 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal.
10. Changed in form or character without becoming something else.
11. The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication.
12. A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
13. A island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.
14. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
21. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked).
23. Joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis.
25. The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet.
27. South American cavy.
28. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril).
30. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.
32. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
33. A desert in southern Israel.
34. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
36. The Destroyer.
37. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.
42. A small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time.
43. Squash bugs.
47. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
50. (British) A paved surface on which cars can be made to skid so that drivers can practice controlling them.
51. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.
53. A language of Australian aborigines.
55. (astronomy) The reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse.
56. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
58. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
60. Of or like a feeble old woman.
61. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.
63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
64. A public announcement (in church) of a proposed marriage.
65. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria and closely related to Hausa.
67. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
68. Having relatively few calories.
71. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
72. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
75. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
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