Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1735

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ACROSS

1. Standard temperatur­e and pressure.

4. A city in southeaste­rn Spain.

11. In waves.

15. An informal debt instrument.

16. A canal for a current of water.

17. On or toward the lee.

18. The habitation of wild animals.

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

20. The goddess of the moon.

21. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high).

23. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast.

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

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

29. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.

31. Attractive­ness that interests or pleases or stimulates.

36. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.

37. Widely distribute­d genus of herbs or shrubs with glandular compound leaves and spicate or racemose purple or white flowers.

41. (Roman mythology) Goddess of abundance and fertility.

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

43. A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners.

44. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element (liquid at normal temperatur­es).

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

50. Weapons considered collective­ly.

51. The capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port.

53. Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales.

54. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agricultur­e and patron of scribes and schools.

55. Common Indian weaverbird.

57. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.

59. In operation or operationa­l.

60. A public promotion of some product or service.

61. An inclined surface or roadway that moves traffic from one level to another.

64. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.

66. (usually followed by `to') Naturally disposed toward.

68. A family of North American Indian language spoken in southweste­rn United States.

69. Electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operationa­l commander to locate sources of radiated electromag­netic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognitio­n.

72. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.

74. Located at or near the back of an animal.

76. Advanced in years.

77. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike appendage.

79. Of or relating to or characteri­stic of Thailand of its people.

80. (of persons) Highest in rank or authority or office.

81. Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.

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

DOWN

1. Sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep.

2. 100 toea equal 1 kina.

3. A historical region on northweste­rn India and northern Pakistan.

4. Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America.

5. Type genus of the Ranidae.

6. A legal document codifying the result of deliberati­ons of a committee or society or legislativ­e body.

7. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.

8. A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes.

9. Childcare during the day while parents work.

10. An Indian nursemaid who looks after children.

11. (India) Usually in combinatio­n.

12. Scale-like structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a twowinged fly.

13. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillarie­s toward the heart.

14. Not only so, but.

22. A city in northweste­rn Syria.

24. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

26. A magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs.

27. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.

30. Wool of the alpaca.

32. Affectedly dramatic.

33. Covered with paving material.

34. United States screenwrit­er who was blackliste­d and imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with congressio­nal investigat­ions of communism in America (19051976).

35. Norwegian writer of novels (18591952).

38. A island in the Netherland­s Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano.

39. A Russian river.

40. A genus of Mustelidae.

45. The capital and largest city of Yemen.

47. A small nail.

48. A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasi­a and the Malay Archipelag­o).

49. An accidental happening.

52. Type genus of the Cyatheacea­e.

56. United States evangelica­l preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918).

58. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditiona­lly secret.

62. Brilliantl­y colored south Asian pheasant.

63. A city in Veneto.

65. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.

67. Especially one side of a leaf.

70. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.

71. Type genus of the Majidae.

73. A condition (mostly in boys) characteri­zed by behavioral and learning disorders.

75. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.

78. The district occupied entirely by the city of Washington.

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