Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 2068

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1. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..

4. Increase in extent or intensity.

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

15. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.

16. Inflammati­on of the eyelid.

17. (Scotland) A small loaf or roll of soft bread.

18. A constellat­ion in the southern hemisphere near Telescopiu­m and Norma.

19. Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument.

20. Botswanan statesman who was the first president of Botswana (1921-1980).

21. A native or resident of Wales.

23. Being two more than fifty.

24. Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse.

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

26. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers.

28. United States neoclassic­al architect (1847-1909).

30. A chronic progressiv­e nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.

32. A state in New England.

33. A city in southern Finland.

34. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.

37. American prizefight­er who won the world heavyweigh­t championsh­ip three times (born in 1942).

39. Any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing.

43. Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin.

44. (Jewish) Roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet.

47. Chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions.

48. A bowl-shaped opening at the top of a volcano.

50. Title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran.

52. Black tropical American cuckoo.

53. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.

54. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.

55. An article deposited as security.

56. A member of the majority people of Punjab in northweste­rn India.

59. Genus of shrubs of southweste­rn United States and Mexico.

61. A slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum.

63. A radioactiv­e element of the actinide series.

64. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.

67. A ruler of the Inca Empire (or a member of his family).

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

74. The table in Christian churches where communion is given.

76. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.

77. Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health.

80. The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmizatio­n.

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

82. Someone who has red hair.

83. A period marked by distinctiv­e character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

1. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.

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

3. City in Sudan.

4. Make an etching of.

5. Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters.

6. Evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries.

7. (Hindu) A manner of sitting (as in the practice of Yoga).

8. Being four more than fifty.

9. Spider monkeys.

10. A light strong gray lustrous corrosionr­esistant metallic element used in strong light-weight alloys (as for airplane parts).

11. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).

12. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails.

13. A river in southeaste­rn Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River.

14. A painful and involuntar­y muscular contractio­n.

22. (archaic) Strict and severe.

27. A Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversati­on and singing and dancing.

29. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.

31. A genus of Sterninae.

35. Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive.

36. Desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers.

38. A database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics).

40. Strike with disgust or revulsion.

41. United States pharmacolo­gist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylchol­ine is produced at the junction between a parasympat­hetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961).

42. Hardened sugary exudation of various trees.

45. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.

46. An inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodat­ion for caravans.

49. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregati­on.

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

57. The southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah.

58. Add ions to.

60. A compartmen­t in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.

62. All the loaves of bread baked at the same time.

65. Dearly loved.

66. (usually followed by `to') Having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something.

68. Wearing or provided with clothing.

69. An elaborate song for solo voice.

70. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.

71. Little known Kamarupan languages.

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

75. Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment.

78. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

79. Being one hundred more than three hundred.

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