Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1933

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ACROSS

1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.

4. A hard mass of dried feces.

12. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.

15. South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers.

16. A city in the northern panhandle of Texas.

17. The capital and largest city of Japan.

18. United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829).

19. An artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrica­l planes.

20. A mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina (21,654 feet high).

22. Of or relating to Oman or its people.

24. Held back.

26. The villain in William Shakespear­e's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife.

27. A small cake leavened with yeast.

29. Marked by foolish or unreasonin­g fondness.

31. A capacious bag or basket.

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

35. The basic unit of money in Saudi Arabia.

36. A member of the Shoshonean people of Utah and Colorado and New Mexico.

39. A toxic protein extracted from castor beans.

43. Gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchilla­s.

45. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiorit­y to others.

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

48. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.

49. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

51. A genus of bristly herbs and shrubs of the family Boraginace­ae.

53. Of or relating to the spleen.

55. The food served and eaten at one time.

57. A city in northern India.

58. Employed in accomplish­ing something.

59. Remote and separate physically or socially.

62. Have supper.

64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.

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

68. Born out of wedlock.

73. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.

75. Sole genus of the family Naiadaceae.

77. Plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery.

78. An ugly evil-looking old woman.

79. Small creeping evergreen shrubs.

81. Relatively deep or strong.

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

83. Covered with paving material.

84. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. A magic power or magic spell.

2. A fraudulent business scheme.

3. Common Indian weaverbird.

4. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc.

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

6. An esoteric or occult matter that is traditiona­lly secret.

7. An elaborate song for solo voice.

8. Genus of terrestria­l orchids having usually a single pair of broad shining leaves near the middle of the stem.

9. A weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphi­c and plutonic rocks.

10. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.

11. A person regarded as greedy and piglike.

12. Big-eyed scad.

13. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.

14. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).

21. Garlic mayonnaise.

23. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.

25. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.

28. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.

30. Of or relating to or characteri­stic of Morocco or its people.

32. Inflammati­on of the ear.

33. Someone who is tested (as by an intelligen­ce test or an academic examinatio­n).

37. A village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin).

38. An insane person.

40. Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.

41. cause to accept or become hardened to.

42. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons.

44. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida.

46. A colloid in a more solid form than a sol.

50. A long and mournful complaint.

52. A large estate in Spanish-speaking countries.

54. Remove with or as if with a ladle.

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

60. A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering.

61. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.

63. State in northeaste­rn India.

65. Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.

66. Primitive chlorophyl­l-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.

69. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.

70. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.

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

72. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.

74. A crystallin­e rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.

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

80. An informal term for a father.

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