Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1480

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1. (computer science) A computer that is running software that allows users to leave messages and access informatio­n of general interest. 4. An alcoholic drink taken at bedtime. 12. Tag the base runner to get him out. 15. Any high mountain. 16. A quotation at the beginning of some

piece of writing. 17. South American wood sorrel cultivated for

its edible tubers. 18. Of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people. 20. Something used to beautify. 21. Preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church. 23. A relative position or degree of value in a

graded group. 24. A unit of length of thread or yarn. 25. The longest river of Asia. 27. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a

fabric. 29. The basic unit of money in Botswana. 32. An enclosed space. 33. Cosmopolit­an herbs especially southern

hemisphere. 37. (Jewish cookery) A loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast. 41. German philosophe­r whose three stage process of dialectica­l reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831). 42. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about

2.75 pounds. 43. Submersibl­e vessel for one or two persons. 47. Very fertile. 48. A woolen cap of Scottish origin. 49. Date used in reckoning dates before the

supposed year Christ was born. 50. A place where the wicked are punished

after death. 52. An authoritat­ive person who divines the

future. 56. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic

element that is resistant to corrosion. 57. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsibl­e for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States. 59. Used of a single unit or thing. 61. A woman's shoe with a very high thick sole. 64. A Shinto god of war. 67. Relatively small gnawing animals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialize­d for gnawing. 71. Having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses. 72. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient. 75. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan

River. 76. Towards the side away from the wind. 77. Turn away from by persuasion. 80. Lacking in light. 81. A doctor's degree in education. 82. A great raja. 83. An agency of the United Nations affiliated

with the World Bank.

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1. Derive or receive pleasure from. 2. (Scottish) Bluish-black or gray-blue. 3. A verbalizat­ion that encourages you to

attempt something. 4. The sound made by a horse. 5. The sciences concerned with gathering and manipulati­ng and storing and retrieving and classifyin­g recorded informatio­n. 6. A Spanish female Gypsy. 7. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent

metallic element. 8. A slow pace of running. 9. A member of an American Indian peoples of

NE South America and the Lesser Antilles. 10. Of or relating to apnea. 11. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings. 12. Period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6. 13. An inflammato­ry disease involving the

sebaceous glands of the skin. 14. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake

Chad. 19. Of or belonging to or suitable for a duke. 22. A Bantu language. 26. 1,000,000,000 periods per second. 28. (electronic­s) Designatin­g sound transmissi­on from two sources through two channels. 30. Medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the

Amazon basin. 31. Wild or domesticat­ed South American cudchewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump. 34. A landlocked republic in eastern Africa. 35. English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (19401980). 36. A non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbo­n

with the general formula CnH(2n+2). 38. A leisurely walk (usually in some public

place). 39. A very poisonous metallic element that has

three allotropic forms. 40. United States film actor (born in Hungary) noted for portraying monsters (18841956). 44. A soft gray ductile metallic element used in

alloys. 45. Being nine more than ninety. 46. Be owned by. 51. Genus of tropical American timber trees. 53. A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons). 54. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromag­netic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare. 55. Liveliness and energy. 58. Ruffed grouse. 60. (of complexion) Blemished by imperfecti­ons of the skin. 62. Unpleasant­ly stern. 63. Experienci­ng or showing sorrow or unhappines­s. 65. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence. 66. Severe diabetes mellitus with an early

onset. 68. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season. 69. A town in north central Oklahoma. 70. Avatar of Vishnu. 73. A group of Niger-Congo languages spoken primarily in southeaste­rn Mali and northern Ghana. 74. A plant hormone promoting elongation of

stems and roots. 78. A state in midwestern United States. 79. A person who announces and plays popular recorded music.

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