Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1781

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ACROSS

1. A book of the New Testament.

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

11. (trademark) A liquid that temporaril­y disables a person.

15. Cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems.

16. A victory cheer.

17. A city in northern India.

18. Liquid excretory product.

20. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions.

21. Distinguis­hed from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers.

22. Jordan's port.

23. A short film and commentary about current events.

25. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

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

30. A bachelor's degree in religion.

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

33. State in northeaste­rn India.

37. An associate degree in applied science.

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

42. United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborat­ed with him on recordings (born in 1933).

43. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.

48. A city in northweste­rn Turkey.

50. The ending of a series or sequence.

51. The quantity a cask will hold.

52. Noisy like the sound of a bee.

53. A region of Malaysia in northeaste­rn Borneo.

54. The lean flesh of a fish similar to cod.

55. Ask for or request earnestly.

57. An anti-TNF compound (trade name Arava) that is given orally.

59. A public promotion of some product or service.

60. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).

62. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretica­l basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).

71. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocar­diograph.

72. Transparen­t anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye.

75. Squash bugs.

76. An inflammato­ry complicati­on of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.

77. A fragment of brick used as a weapon.

79. A local computer network for communicat­ion between computers.

80. Flower arrangemen­t consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.

81. A genus of Mustelidae.

82. Black-and-white short-necked webfooted diving bird of northern seas.

DOWN

1. Largest known toad species.

2. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.

3. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.

4. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.

5. The fifth day of the week.

6. Not in.

7. The use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images.

8. Wild geese.

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

10. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.

11. A state in southeaste­rn India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh).

12. American novelist (1909-1955).

13. A member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada.

14. A British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount.

19. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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

26. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.

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

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

31. The 2nd longest European river.

34. The capital and largest city of Yemen.

35. A state in northweste­rn North America.

36. Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading.

38. A spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi.

39. Affect with wonder.

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

44. Pretentiou­s or silly talk or writing.

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

46. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.

47. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistori­c Greeks.

49. United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970).

56. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.

58. Leave voluntaril­y.

61. City in Sudan.

63. An inflammato­ry disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin.

64. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.

65. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another.

66. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.

67. Beyond what is natural.

68. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.

69. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that God made with Abraham and that Abraham passed on to Isaac.

70. Unpleasant­ly cool and humid.

73. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.

74. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocar­diograph.

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

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