Kuwait Times

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ACROSS

1. (Australian and New Zealand) A disparagin­g term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand.

4. A language spoken by the Atakapa people of the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas.

12. A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.

15. (informal) Of the highest quality.

16. Concluding state of pregnancy.

17. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis.

18. A genus of Paridae.

20. Contrary to your interests or welfare.

21. Stern foremost or backward.

23. A piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep.

24. Spread or daub over.

26.The capital and largest city of Ghana with

a deep-water port.

28. A city in the northern panhandle of Texas.

30. In accordance with nature.

33. Music performed for dancing the polka.

34. A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head.

36. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.

37. The basic unit of money in Botswana.

39. Desire strongly or persistent­ly.

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

42.The widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic.

47. A mountainou­s landlocked communist state in southeaste­rn Asia.

48. A chronic inflammato­ry collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints).

49. Being one more than one.

50. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917).

51. An elaborate song for solo voice.

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

56. (astronomy) A measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion.

57. Small genus of plants constituti­ng the family Batidaceae.

59. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

60. The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins to destroy men and animals or food.

61. A hemoprotei­n composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteri­stic color.

63. Absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstructio­n of the nasal passages).

67. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.

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

72. A minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC).

73. Type genus of the Amiidae.

74. Any member of a Siouan people speaking one of the Dhegiha languages.

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

78. British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888).

79. (British) A minicar used as a taxicab.

80. An informal term for a father.

DOWN

1. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.

2. United States newspaper publisher (18581935).

3. Ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth.

4. Congenital absence of the heart (as in the developmen­t of some monsters).

5. Of or relating to the palm of the hand or to the area at the base of the thumb.

6. Brief episode in which the brain gets insufficie­nt blood supply.

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

8. Being one hundred more than three hundred.

9. A port city in southweste­rn Iran.

10. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).

11. Convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid.

12.The room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur.

13. Other than what is under considerat­ion or implied.

14. A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs.

19. South African mongoose-like viverrine having a face like a lemur and only four toes.

22. A slender double-reed instrument.

25. The inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm.

27. Pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves).

29. Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails.

31. Skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends.

32. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.

35. A bachelor's degree in music.

38. Morally bad or wrong.

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

43. An unwholesom­e atmosphere.

44. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers.

45. Of or relating to rabbis or their teachings.

46. (Welsh) Lord of Annwfn (the other world.

52. Lack of normal muscular tension or tonus.

53. Remove from the bar.

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

58. A hard copal derived from an African tree.

62. Being derived from.

64. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset.

65. (New Testament) The sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born.

66. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).

68. A Russian river.

69. With no effort to conceal.

71. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall hill.

75. An expression of greeting.

76. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.

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