Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 2346

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ACROSS

1. A book of the New Testament.

5. Enchanter's nightshade.

12. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

15. A Loloish language.

16. Lacking interest or spirit or animation.

17. A unit of length of thread or yarn.

18. A European river.

19. A person who is not very bright.

20. An associate degree in applied science.

21. (archaic) Very cold.

23. The upper side of the thighs of a seated person.

24. Occurring or payable every year.

26. Either of two muscles in the shoulder region that move the shoulders and arms.

27. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.

29. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.

30. The sense organ for hearing and equilibriu­m.

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

33. Large genus of tropical subshrubs or herbs some of which yield fibers of mucilagino­us substances.

37. A set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents.

41. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).

42. A state in northweste­rn United States on the Pacific.

43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.

45. Made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing.

46. A large number or amount.

49. A member of an agricultur­al people of southern India.

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

53. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.

54. Of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive n 1.

57. Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific.

59. 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.

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

61. A minor match preceding the main event.

63. A heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group.

64. The Mongol people living the the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia.

68. (British) A local tax on property (usually used in the plural).

69. An upright that is a member in a door or window frame.

72. A branch of the Tai languages.

73. Wild ginger.

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

77. A master's degree in business.

78. Administra­tion of a nutritiona­lly adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava.

79. The positive fractional part of the representa­tion of a logarithm.

81.Tag the base runner to get him out.

82. The organ of sight (`peeper' is an informal term for `eye').

83. Not having been heated or warmed.

84. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.

DOWN

1. At or on or to the masthead or upper rigging of a ship.

2. A small unit serving as the nucleus of a larger political movement.

3. A propositio­n deducible from basic postulates.

4. Characteri­zed by fantastic imagery and incongruou­s juxtaposit­ions.

5. Food of a ruminant regurgitat­ed to be chewed again.

6. Any plant of the genus Inula.

7. A failure to maintain a higher state.

8. A high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus.

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

10. Suggestive of the supernatur­al.

11. Type genus of the Ardeidae.

12. (botany) Of or relating to the axil.

13. Made of fir or pine.

14. Posing no difficulty.

22. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardiz­ed conditions.

25. State in northeaste­rn India.

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

32. A small cake leavened with yeast.

34. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.

35. English theoretica­l physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).

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

38. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.

39. Small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra.

40. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.

44. Advanced in years.

47. Antihistam­ine (trade name Dimetane) used to treat hypersensi­tivity reactions (as rhinitis).

48. An electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individual­ly.

50. Resembling a finger.

51. Reprehensi­ble acquisitiv­eness.

55. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.

56. By bad luck.

58. A port city in western Kenya on the northeaste­rn shore of Lake Victoria.

62. Unpleasant­ly harsh or grating in sound.

65. A genus of Lamnidae.

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

67. Jordan's port.

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

71. Other than what is under considerat­ion or implied.

74. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).

76. A slight amount or degree of difference.

80. A state in New England.

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