Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1750

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ACROSS

1. An affirmativ­e.

4. Of or relating to the head.

12. An enclosed space.

15. A port in southweste­rn Scotland.

16. Unsegmente­d worms.

17. The corporate executive responsibl­e for the operations of the firm.

18. Relating to of containing or affecting blood.

20. Son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil.

21. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich.

22. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.

23. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology.

24. A genus of bee.

26. A woman religious.

28. The eighth month of the Hindu calendar.

30. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

31. Affected by ague.

34. An organizati­on of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.

36. A state of deep and often prolonged unconsciou­sness.

37. Diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characteri­zed by polyuria.

39. A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter.

40. A member of the Shoshonean people of northeaste­rn Arizona.

43. Cap that fits over the hub of a wheel.

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

47. A bachelor's degree in religion.

49. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.

50. The compass point midway between northeast and east.

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

55. Someone who fights bulls.

57. A republic in southeaste­rn Europe.

58. A public promotion of some product or service.

59. make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.

61. Any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers.

63. Annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterran­ean region.

65. An accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape.

67. An act that exploits or victimizes someone.

69. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.

73. Being two more than forty.

75. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.

76. A kind of person.

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

80. Being one more than two.

81. An early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica.

82. The longer of the two telegraphi­c signals used in Morse code.

DOWN

1. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.

2. An unfledged or nestling hawk.

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

4. 1 species.

5. An internatio­nal organizati­on of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperatio­n among its members.

6. After noon.

7. A diacritica­l mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciat­ion.

8. A drug (trade names Atarax and Vistaril) used as a tranquiliz­er to treat anxiety and motion sickness.

9. Of or relating to or affecting a lobe.

10. An artificial language that is a revision and simplifica­tion of Esperanto.

11. Hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike.

12. A fraudulent business scheme.

13. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).

14. A brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes.

19. Wildly disordered.

25. An endorsemen­t.

27. A state in New England.

29. An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding.

32. French composer (1818-1893).

33. Of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments n 1.

35. Candy containing a fruit or nut.

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

41. Dried plum v 1.

42. Person who does no work.

44. Italian violin maker in Cremona.

45. A city in Veneto.

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

52. A republic in Central America.

53. Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745).

54. Speak in a nasal voice.

56. Physicist honored for advances in solid state electronic­s (born in Japan in 1925).

60. United States writer of children's books (1904-1991).

62. A Dravidian language spoken in south central India.

64. One of the two branches of the FinnoUgric family of languages.

66. (Norse mythology) Goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match.

68. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.

70. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.

71. The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.

72. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.

74. A federal agency establishe­d to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environmen­t.

77. A metallic element having four allotropic forms.

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

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