Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 2083

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ACROSS

1. Characteri­stic of a mob.

4. A person who fixes the boundaries of land claims.

11. A girl or young woman who is unmarried.

15. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.

16. A deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeaste­rn United States.

17. A Loloish language.

18. Having leadership guidance.

19. Operculate seasnail of coastal waters with a short spiral shell.

20. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.

21. Singing jazz.

23. European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills.

24. A telegram sent abroad.

25. Being nine more than ninety.

27. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinall­y and burned as incense.

30. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer.

31. More than enough in size or scope or capacity.

34. One who reveals confidenti­al informatio­n in return for money. 37.Taking place over public roads.

39. State of being husband and wife.

43. Declared but not proved.

45. Any of several toxic or carcinogen­ic hydrocarbo­ns that occur as impurities in herbicides.

46. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic informatio­n from DNA to the cytoplasm.

47. A unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions.

50. Yearling heifer or bullock.

51. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.

53. An artificial source of visible illuminati­on.

55. American prizefight­er who won the world heavyweigh­t championsh­ip three times (born in 1942).

56. A wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuildi­ng.

58. An award for winning a championsh­ip or commemorat­ing some other event.

61. An associate degree in nursing.

62. Destructio­n of heart tissue resulting from obstructio­n of the blood supply to the heart muscle.

63. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind.

66. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.

70. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.

72. Made of or resembling lace.

73. A river that rises in northeaste­rn Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea. 75.West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.

77. Black tropical American cuckoo.

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

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

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

83. A small cake leavened with yeast.

DOWN

1. A master's degree in library science.

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

3. English monk and scholar (672-735).

4. A nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick.

5. A spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter.

6. A town in southeaste­rn New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border.

7. Of the appetites and passions of the body.

8. Vietnamese New Year.

9. A city of east central Mexico (west of Veracruz).

10. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.

11. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.

12. Jordan's port.

13. Be going to.

14. A dress worn primarily by Hindu women.

22. A diacritica­l mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalizati­on.

26. A ductile gray metallic element of the lanthanide series.

28.The 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.

29. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member government­s.

32. Hungarian playwright (1878-1952).

33. A large and stately mansion.

35. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord.

36. A public act of violence by an unruly mob.

38. Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root.

40. Of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation.

41. A young woman.

42. (Sumerian) Water god and god of wisdom.

44. Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962.

48. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high). 49.The capital and largest city of Jordan.

52. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.

54. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).

57. An immunosupp­ressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplant­ed organ.

59. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.

60. A public promotion of some product or service.

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

65. Jordan's port.

67. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.

68. Harsh or corrosive in tone.

69. The language of the nomadic Lapp people in northern Scandinavi­a and the Kola Peninsula.

71. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.

74. Intentiona­lly so written (used after a printed word or phrase).

76. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research.

78. Before noon.

79. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.

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