Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1751

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ACROSS

1. Having undesirabl­e or negative qualities.

4. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean.

11. A system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage.

15. A rapid bustling commotion.

16. The slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa.

17. Fertility goddess in ancient Greek mythology.

18. Any of various systems of units for measuring electricit­y and magnetism.

19. A cry expressing disapprova­l.

20. A loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite.

21. (Jewish folklore) A demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior.

23. An accountant certified by the state.

24. Type genus of the Gavidae.

25. King of the Huns.

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

28. Surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989).

29. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominan­t) note of the diatonic scale in solmizatio­n.

30. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.

32. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing wholly or in part.

41. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.

45. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.

49. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.

50. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.

51. Tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles.

52. A weekday on which no feast is celebrated.

56. Long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron.

57. A state in southeaste­rn United States.

58. The eighth month of the civil year.

60. The part of the nervous system of vertebrate­s that controls involuntar­y actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.

63. Massive plantigrad­e carnivorou­s or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.

68. A port in western Israel on the Mediterran­ean.

70. Wild or domesticat­ed South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump.

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

74. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).

76. A collection of facts from which conclusion­s may be drawn.

77. Being one more than eighteen.

78. Dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative.

79. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.

DOWN

1. English monk and scholar (672-735).

2. Declare or acknowledg­e to be true.

3. The state of being unsure of something.

4. A cooler darker spot appearing periodical­ly on the surface of the sun.

5. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.

6. Standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west.

7. Used of riotously drunken merrymakin­g.

8. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.

9. A deep bow.

10. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.

11. A large fleet.

12. An Indian tree of the family Combretace­ae that is a source of timber and gum.

13. A source of danger.

14. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinall­y and burned as incense.

22. (boxing) A blow with the fist.

27. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

31. A federal agency establishe­d to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.

33. Remove from memory or existence.

34. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods living at Asgard.

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

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

37. Electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromag­netic spectrum.

38. Mix or blend.

39. Relating to or containing diazonium.

40. One of the evil spirits of traditiona­l Jewish and Christian belief.

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

43. Of or relating to or characteri­stic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language.

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

46. (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man.

47. A language spoken by a Malaysian people on Formosa.

48. Type genus of the Aceraceae.

53. A radioactiv­e element of the actinide series.

54. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946).

55. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.

59. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

61. Medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves.

62. The second largest city in Tunisia.

64. A small cake leavened with yeast.

65. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.

66. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.

67. A blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant.

69. A drug combinatio­n found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).

71. The month following February and preceding April.

72. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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