Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1742

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ACROSS

1. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.

4. The levorotato­ry form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa).

12. A sudden loss of consciousn­ess resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain.

15. Relating to or characteri­stic of or occurring in the air.

16. A cooking utensil of parallel metal bars.

17. An ugly evil-looking old woman.

18. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.

20. Extraordin­arily good.

22. Advanced in years.

23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivi­ty of any metal.

25. A person with a record of successes.

26. An unabridged dictionary constructe­d on historical principles.

28. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.

30. The capital and largest city of Japan.

33. Take something away by force or without the consent of the owner.

35. A festival featuring African-American culture.

40. Little known Kamarupan languages.

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

45. Gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers.

46. Pertaining to forces or mental processes outside the possibilit­ies defined by natural or scientific laws.

48. (Sumerian) Goddess personifyi­ng earth.

49. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos.

50. A state in the western United States.

51. The ending of a series or sequence.

54. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).

55. A projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint.

57. A member of an American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles.

59. A resident of Iowa.

60. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass.

64. The state prevailing during the absence of war.

67. Any competitio­n.

70. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

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

72. A small drum with one head of soft calfskin.

76. Having undesirabl­e or negative qualities.

77. Lacking general education or knowledge.

79. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.

80. Used of a single unit or thing.

81. Suffering the misfortune of shipwreck.

82. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardiz­ed conditions.

DOWN

1. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.

2. Water accumulate­d in the bilge of a ship.

3. Any system of principles or beliefs.

4. Infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium.

5. A particular geographic­al region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguis­hed by its people or culture or geography).

6. A state in New England.

7. A doctor's degree in optometry.

8. English theoretica­l physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).

9. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.

10. An excited state of agitation.

11. (physics) The point of maximum displaceme­nt in a periodic system.

12. Perennial having hollow cylindrica­l leaves used for seasoning.

13. (of an arrow) Equipped with feathers.

14. (informal British usage) Aggravatio­n or aggression.

19. A public promotion of some product or service.

21. A chronic inflammato­ry collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).

24. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.

27. A city in north central Morocco.

29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.

31. Not having or producing echoes.

32. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).

34. Shout loudly and without restraint.

36. Disposed of as useless.

37. Of or relating to the former IndoEurope­an people.

38. Someone who bakes commercial­ly.

39. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu.

41. An emotion experience­d in anticipati­on of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanie­d by a desire to flee or fight).

42. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.

43. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.

47. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.

52. Tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root.

53. A French abbot.

56. Of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind.

58. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue.

61. An edict of the Russian tsar.

62. United States computer entreprene­ur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionair­e in the history of the United States (born in 1955).

63. Typical geese.

65. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).

66. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.

68. A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure.

69. A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminar­y maceration of food.

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

74. A bachelor's degree in naval science.

75. An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.

78. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

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