Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1733

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ACROSS

1. Mentally or physically infirm with age.

5. The act of putting something in working order again.

11. A written proposal or reminder.

15. Goddess of spring and wife of Bragi.

16. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.

17. An independen­t ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).

18. (British) An open river valley (in a hilly area).

19. Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories.

20. Any plant of the genus Erica.

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

23. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.

24. Popular music originatin­g in the West Indies.

26. Small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions.

34. An overwhelmi­ng feeling of wonder or admiration.

39. The ratio of reflected to incident light.

41. (legend) Chalice used by Christ at the last supper.

44. Back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked.

45. Antiarrhyt­hmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatenin­g arrhythmia­s but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients.

46. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.

48. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

49. (of spatial position) In or brought into line with or into proper relative position.

51. Forced to turn and face attackers.

54. A Mid-Atlantic state.

55. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.

57. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.

58. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

59. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access informatio­n of general interest.

61. Large bamboo having thick-walled culms.

65. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.

67. Last or greatest in an indefinite­ly large series.

70. Involving the joint activity of two or more.

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

74. A monocotyle­donous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America.

77. A three-dimensiona­l shape with six square or rectangula­r sides.

78. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.

79. Eighth month of the Revolution­ary calendar (April and May).

80. The biblical name for ancient Syria.

81. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.

82. United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979).

83. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.

2. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.

3. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.

4. Used of a single unit or thing.

5. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.

6. (Greek mythology) God of love.

7. Parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car.

8. A member of the Circassian people living east of the Black Sea.

9. Being one more than two.

10. An intensely radioactiv­e metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.

11. A dark region of considerab­le extent on the surface of the moon.

12. An independen­t ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).

13. Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystalliz­e in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves.

14. A port city in northweste­rn Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.

22. An informal term for a father.

25. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.

27. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.

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

29. Agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor.

30. The cry made by sheep.

31. A summary that repeats the substance of a longer discussion.

32. The clay from which adobe bricks are made.

33. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.

35. In a weak or pale or languid manner.

36. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.

37. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.

38. (Greek mythology) The god of the underworld in ancient mythology.

40. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.

42. A comedian who uses gags.

43. A training program to prepare college students to be commission­ed officers.

47. English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840).

50. Give a nickname to.

52. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.

53. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).

56. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.

60. A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff.

62. Frogs, toads, tree toads.

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

64. Swelling from excessive accumulati­on of serous fluid in tissue.

66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.

68. An African grass economical­ly important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay.

69. A Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman.

71. A translucen­t mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color.

73. (informal) `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederat­e soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War.

75. A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.

76. To make a mistake or be incorrect.

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