Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 2341

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ACROSS

1. A licensed medical practition­er.

4. A particular environmen­t or surroundin­g

influence.

12.What you can repeat immediatel­y after

perceiving it.

15. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.

16. A boat that can be launched or landed in

heavy surf.

17. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat.

18. A Russian soup usually containing beet

juice as a foundation.

20. 1 conto equals 1,000 escudos. 21.The administra­tion of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsion­s and coma. 22.The compass point that is one point east

of southeast.

23. A metallic element of the rare earth

group.

25. Something or someone that causes anxiety.

27. Used of a single unit or thing.

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

31. Something lost (especially money lost at

gambling).

32. Large and brightly colored handkerchi­ef. 35. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike

part of an organism.

36. Make amends for.

37. A city in northern India.

39. A potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine.

43. The general activity of selling.

44. A genus of Ploceidae.

46. An African river that flows northwest into

Lake Chad.

47. A white trivalent metallic element. 49.Water soaked soil.

50. Similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs.

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

56. Any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of

the genus Monilia.

59.The third compartmen­t of the stomach of

a ruminant.

61. A mouth or mouthlike opening.

63. An anti-inflammato­ry drug that does not

contain steroids.

65. An archaic name for Easter or Passover. 71. The capital and largest city of Yemen. 74. (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. 75.The United Nations agency concerned

with the interests of labor.

76. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat

trimmed off.

79. United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959).

80. A long projecting or anterior elongation

of an animal's head.

81. Coelentera­te genus of order

Madreporar­ia, including staghorn corals. 82. Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male.

DOWN

1. United States labor organizer who ran for

President as a socialist (1855-1926).

2. A member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska.

3. (chemistry) Relating to or containing the

carbonyl group.

4. The residue that remains when something

is burned.

5. An inferior dog or one of mixed breed.

6. A nonmetalli­c largely pentavalen­t heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens.

7. A United Nations agency that invest directly in companies and guarantees loans to private investors.

8. A unit of resistance equal to a billionth of

an ohm.

9. Not at all or in no way.

10. Relating to or denoting or characteri­stic

of Catalonia or its inhabitant­s.

11. A nonsteroid­al anti-inflammato­ry drug

(trade name Lodine).

12. Optical instrument consisting of a pair of

lenses for correcting defective vision. 13. (Greek mythology) The goddess of fortune.

14. A pair of people who live together.

19. The intended recipient of a message. 24. A region whose eastern part is Bangladesh and western part is included in India.

26.The fourth month of the Hindu calendar. 28. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

30. An epicycloid in which the rolling circle

equals the fixed circle.

33. Having the wind against the forward side

of the sails.

34. Plant with an elongated head of broad

stalked leaves resembling celery.

38. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man. 40. Any of several plants of the genus

Camassia.

41. (Akkadian) Mother and earth goddess in

Gilgamish epic.

42. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults.

45. Used of a single unit or thing.

48. The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzavill­e.

51. Before noon.

52. A member of the Siouan people of the

Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska. 54. A pirate along the Barbary coast.

55. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle.

57. A plant hormone promoting elongation of

stems and roots.

58. Being one more than fifty.

60. Not reflecting light.

62. A river that rises in central Germany and

flows north to join the Elbe River.

64. Small donkey used as a pack animal. 66. A person regarded as arrogant and

annoying.

67. A short high tone produced as a signal or

warning.

68. A small island.

69. Horny plate covering and protecting part

of the dorsal surface of the digits.

70. Any thick messy substance.

72. An implement used to propel or steer a

boat.

73. In favor of (an action or proposal etc.). 77. A small digital computer based on a microproce­ssor and designed to be used by one person at a time.

78. A soft silvery metallic element of the

alkali earth group.

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