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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 unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc.
10. The first month of the year.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. A decorative pin worn by women.
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
18. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
19. The topmost one of two.
21. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
25. (prefix) Within.
26. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
29. United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934).
31. (Old Testament) The minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them.
33. A colorless and odorless inert gas.
37. Surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments.
40. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
42. A master's degree in fine arts.
43. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
44. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
46. Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium.
49. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
52. A male human offspring.
55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
59. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
60. A woody climbing usually tropical plant.
61. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
62. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
63. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.
64. Light informal conversation for social occasions.
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1. Wearing or provided with clothing.
2. Capital city of the Apulia region on the Adriatic coast.
3. A human female who does housework.
4. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.
5. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
6. Coffee trees.
7. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
8. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
9. Deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia.
10. A string of more than 3,000 islands east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
11. An active and efficient cause.
12. Australian clover fern.
17. Capital and largest city of Iraq.
20. Humble request for help.
22. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
23. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity.
24. A nonmetallic largely pentavalent heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.
27. Young of domestic cattle.
28. Type genus of the Amiidae.
30. A village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa.
32. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.
34. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan.
35. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
36. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
38. A light touch or stroke.
39. Capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression.
40. A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.
41. With no effort to conceal.
45. Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects.
47. United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942).
48. Complacently or inanely foolish.
49. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
50. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
51. An island in Indonesia east of Java.
53. A small cake leavened with yeast.
54. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
56. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
57. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
58. 10 grams.
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