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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. Egyptian statesman who (as President of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin of Israel (1918-1981).
9. Armor plate that protects the chest.
13. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
14. A river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea.
15. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.
16. (informal) Of the highest quality.
17. A manicurist who trims the fingernails.
18. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
19. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
21. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
22. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquilizer to treat anxiety and motion sickness.
24. Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
26. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
28. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
29. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
30. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
32. A light touch or stroke.
35. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
38. A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
39. A local computer network for communication between computers.
41. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
42. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
45. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
48. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
49. The second month of the Moslem calendar.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
52. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.
56. Military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
57. Edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants.
59. A branch of the Tai languages.
60. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).
62. An unofficial association of people or groups.
65. A master's degree in business.
66. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.
67. French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982).
69. Tag the base runner to get him out.
70. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
71. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret.
72. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.
2. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
3. Relatively low in price or charging low prices.
4. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
5. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.
6. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
7. How long something has existed.
8. A three-tone Chadic language.
9. The younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy.
10. Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.
11. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
12. The second largest city in Tunisia.
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
23. A doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research.
25. 16 ounces.
27. A public promotion of some product or service.
31. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
33. A federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955.
34. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species.
36. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
37. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.
40. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.
43. Of or relating to the heart.
44. The bill in a restaurant.
46. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
47. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.
48. A brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors.
50. (sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing realization or perception.
53. A genus of Lamnidae.
54. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
55. Jordan's port.
58. An organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
61. Fiddler crabs.
63. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
64. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules shaped like a double helix.
68. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
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