Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1776

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1. Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west.

4. A member of a North American Indian people of the Gila river valley in Arizona.

12. A doctor's degree in dental surgery.

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

16. Red Asian weaverbird­s often kept as cage birds.

17. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsibl­e for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.

18. Made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned.

19. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.

20. The cry made by sheep.

21. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).

26. African tree having an exceedingl­y thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.

30. A human limb.

31. The basic

Bangladesh.

35. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.

37. A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties.

38. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.

39. Surrealist Spanish painter (19041989).

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

44. (Greek mythology) Greek god of war.

45. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetica­lly.

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

47. The sense organ for hearing and equilibriu­m.

48. An anxiety disorder characteri­zed by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritabili­ty etc that has lasted for more than six months.

50. A public promotion of some product or service.

53. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.

60. The basic unit of money in Finland.

64. Passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally.

68. Involving two dimensions.

71. A master's degree in business.

72. Made warm or hot.

73. The honeycreep­ers.

75. A decree that prohibits something.

76. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.

77. Type genus of the Squatinida­e.

78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth. unit of money in

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1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.

2. Block consisting of a thick piece of something.

3. A fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate.

4. Austrian physicist and philosophe­r who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (18381916).

5. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.

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

7. A state in the Rocky Mountains.

8. A small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool.

9. (sports) With hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level.

10. The capital of Sicily.

11. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.

12. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.

13. An administra­tor in charge of a division of a university or college.

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

22. A toxic nonmetalli­c element related to sulfur and tellurium.

23. One of the 7 gods of happiness.

24. The principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology.

25. 16 ounces.

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

28. Treated with oil.

29. A highly unstable radioactiv­e element (the heaviest of the halogen series).

32. Transient cessation of respiratio­n.

33. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.

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

36. The law enforcemen­t agency in the Justice Department.

40. A small cake leavened with yeast.

42. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.

43. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.

49. Informal terms for clothing.

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

52. An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals.

54. A native or inhabitant of Finland.

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

56. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae.

57. Fairly small terrestria­l ferns of tropical America.

58. (often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent.

59. A radioactiv­e element of the actinide series.

61. A Bantu language spoken by the Kamba people in Kenya.

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

63. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.

65. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs.

66. A republic in the Middle East in western Asia.

67. A Loloish language.

69. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

70. A case for containing a set of articles.

74. A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagneti­c metallic element.

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