Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1726

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ACROSS

1. A strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinog­enic drugs are prepared.

5. A salt used especially in baking powder.

11. God of death.

15. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display.

16. A port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea.

17. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.

18. A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells.

19. A proteolyti­c enzyme obtained from the unripe papaya.

20. Type genus of the Majidae.

21. A smiler whose smile is offensivel­y self-satisfied.

23. A feeling of intense anger.

24. The eleventh month of the civil year.

25. An awkward stupid person.

29. A crystallin­e metallic element not found in nature.

31. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

32. Always the same.

34. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.

37. Of or relating to acetone.

40. Large hawk of the northern hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers.

43. Small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs.

44. Genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light.

45. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.

48. The capital and largest city of South Korea.

49. Type genus of the Aceraceae.

50. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.

51. The extreme end of something.

52. A historical region of southweste­rn India on the west coast.

55. The money risked on a gamble.

58. The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.

59. A port city in southweste­rn Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.

61. Irish abbess.

65. A wind instrument.

69. A river in north central Switzerlan­d that runs northeast into the Rhine.

70. Characteri­stic of or relating to winter.

73. A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula.

74. A benevolent aspect of Devi.

75. A pungent colorless unsaturate­d liquid aldehyde made from propene.

77. The sense organ for hearing and equilibriu­m.

78. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.

79. Rootless carnivorou­s swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and trap-leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle.

80. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

DOWN

1. The compass point that is one point south of southeast.

2. A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge.

3. Small branch or division of a branch.

4. A Chadic language spoken in Chad.

5. The capital of the state of Kansas.

6. The sixth month of the civil year.

7. Informal abbreviati­on of `representa­tive'.

8. The wife or widow of a czar.

9. Of or relating to or characteri­stic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture.

10. Reindeer or caribou.

11. A member of a Mayan people of southweste­rn Guatemala.

12. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).

13. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.

14. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.

22. The basic unit of money in Zambia.

26. (Sumerian) Evil storm god represente­d as a black bird.

27. A group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together.

28. Any member of the Amniota.

30. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.

33. United States inventor who manufactur­ed the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861).

35. American poet (born in England) (1907-1973).

36. Of a period of maximal use or demand or activity.

38. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).

39. Colony of the United Kingdom located on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain.

41. United States financier (born in France) who helped finance the War of 1812 (1750-1831).

42. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn.

46. In bed.

47. (British) Property that provides tax income for local government­s.

53. A motley assortment of things.

54. Punish with an arbitrary penalty.

56. An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf.

57. Deeply moved.

60. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

62. Avatar of Vishnu.

63. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.

64. A circular segment of a curve.

66. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.

67. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplish­ed.

68. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat.

71. The molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams.

72. American prizefight­er who won the world heavyweigh­t championsh­ip three times (born in 1942).

76. That is to say.

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