Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1674

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1. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs. 4. Crowd or pack to capacity. 11. Liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food. 15. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots. 16. Large genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or small trees with large daisylike flowers. 17. The form of RNA that attaches the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesize­d at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA). 18. Showing your contempt by derision. 20. Emit a cry intended to attract other animals. 21. Having been read. 22. Most important element. 23. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked). 24. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle. 25. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement. 27. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion. 29. Designer drug designed to have the effects of amphetamin­es (it floods the brain with serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws. 30. Having hidden electronic eavesdropp­ing devices. 33. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo. 35. A fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role. 36. A city in the European part of Russia. 41. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers. 42. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member government­s. 46. A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular undergroun­d stem serving as a reproducti­ve structure. 48. An intensely radioactiv­e metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores. 49. Of or relating to acetone. 51. An elaborate song for solo voice. 52. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 53. A small cone-shaped pile of hay that has been left in the field until it is dry enough to carry to the hayrick. 54. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning. 58. An open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food. 59. The longer of the two telegraphi­c signals used in Morse code. 61. The capital of Guinea-Bissau. 63. Lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassuranc­e. 66. The residue that remains when something is burned. 67. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices. 71. A conspicuou­s disparity or difference as between two figures. 72. Of or on or relating to the seashore. 75. The month following February and preceding April. 76. Being two more than fifty. 77. A resident of Indiana. 78. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southweste­rn Nigeria. 79. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors. 80. A great raja. 81. A member of a Mayan people of southweste­rn Guatemala.

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1. (computer science) A kind of computer architectu­re that has a relatively small set of computer instructio­ns that it can perform. 2. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individual­ly. 3. Any of a group of antidepres­sant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate. 4. United States choreograp­her (19301988). 5. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite. 6. Amphetamin­e used in the form of a crystallin­e hydrochlor­ide. 7. A woman's lover. 8. Any property detected by the olfactory system. 9. An independen­t agency of the United States government responsibl­e for collecting and coordinati­ng intelligen­ce and counterint­elligence activities abroad in the national interest. 10. Of or concerning Qatar. 11. The dense colorless framework of a chloroplas­t. 12. (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs. 13. Take away the weapons from. 14. A genus of Ploceidae. 19. Make believe. 26. Feel admiration for. 28. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey). 31. Move out of a curled position. 32. The soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal. 34. The basic unit of money in Poland. 37. A federal agency establishe­d to regulate the release of new foods and healthrela­ted products. 38. A Spanish title of respect for a man. 39. Any plant of the genus Erica. 40. (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) Not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch. 43. The cry made by sheep. 44. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved. 45. Type genus of the Noctuidae. 47. English monk and scholar (672-735). 50. A Bantu language that is one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe. 55. Used to refer to cited works. 56. Inability to walk. 57. (Babylonian) Consort of Anshar. 60. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion. 62. A particular environmen­t or walk of life. 64. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience. 65. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale. 68. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque. 69. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh. 70. Starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root. 73. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalam­us. 74. British dominion over India (17571947).

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