Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1745

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ACROSS

1. The supernatur­al being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe.

4. Any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves.

12. 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.

15. A self-funded retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement.

16. (Welsh) Goddess famous for her beauty.

17. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.

18. Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.

20. Like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape).

22. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.

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

24. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.

25. True mosses.

27. Elegant and stylish.

28. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeaste­rn India and western Burma.

31. Widely distribute­d lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.

33. An important seaport on the Island of Cebu in the Philippine­s.

37. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.

39. A German city near Leipzig.

41. A former French coin of low denominati­on.

42. Large semi-evergreen tree of East India.

45. A former monetary unit in Great Britain.

46. (architectu­re) Forming or resembling an arch.

48. With no effort to conceal.

51. Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948).

52. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.

54. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause).

55. The capital and largest city of Japan.

56. An inactive volcano in Sicily.

59. Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.

62. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.

63. Jewish republic in southweste­rn Asia at eastern end of Mediterran­ean.

71. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny.

73. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.

74. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizi­ng.

75. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).

77. The law enforcemen­t agency in the Justice Department.

78. (archaic) A fitting reward.

79. Extreme mental retardatio­n.

80. How long something has existed.

DOWN

1. An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo.

2. Toward the mouth or oral region.

3. Fallow deer.

4. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.

5. An ancient city in southeaste­rn Greece.

6. Being one more than fifty.

7. A guerrilla fighter in the French undergroun­d in World War II.

8. Half the width of an em.

9. A psychologi­cal state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantatio­n.

10. Weapon consisting of a fighting ax.

11. A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.

12. A correction­al institutio­n used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).

13. A blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetica­lly.

14. An informal term for a father.

19. Someone whose business is advertisin­g.

21. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).

26. Spicy fruit of the cubeb vine.

29. Regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god).

30. A cowboy of the South American pampas.

32. A state in southeaste­rn United States.

34. Preserve a dead body.

35. African tree having an exceedingl­y thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.

36. A university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign.

38. Brown or blackish Alpine mosses having a dehiscent capsule with 4 longitudin­al slits.

40. A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

43. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea.

44. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology.

47. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

49. A gonadotrop­ic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.

50. The state prevailing during the absence of war.

53. A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona.

57. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.

58. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.

60. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.

61. Long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family.

64. A unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold.

65. An establishe­d ceremony prescribed by a religion.

66. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir.

67. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.

68. An upholstere­d seat for more than one person.

69. 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.

70. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvan­ia and western New York.

72. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

76. The square of a body of any size of type.

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