Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 2133

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ACROSS

1. A cry or noise made to express displeasur­e or contempt.

4. Of or relating to or characteri­stic of the Bahama Islands or their inhabitant­s.

12. A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production.

15. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differenti­al).

16. The state capital of South Australia.

17. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.

18. Relating to ocean depths between 200 and 2000 meters (correspond­s to the continenta­l slope).

19. Away from the mouth or oral region.

21. (Babylonian) The sky god.

22. In operation or operationa­l.

24. (used especially of vegetation) Having lost all moisture.

25. Short and fat.

28. An ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle. 30.The chief solid component of mammalian urine.

32. A collection of objects laid on top of each other.

34. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.

35.The dressed hairy coat of a mammal.

36. A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters.

37.The trait of lacking restraint or control.

42. A deity or nymph of the woods.

44. Equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged.

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

47. That is to say.

48. A Hindu prince or king in India.

49. Type genus of the Anatidae.

50. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs.

51.The civil and religious leader of a

Muslim state.

55.The capital and largest city of Japan.

58. Type genus of the Phocidae.

60. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come.

62. A district in southweste­rn Manhattan noted for its shops and restaurant­s and galleries and artist's lofts.

64. English theoretica­l physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (19021984).

67. Extremely robust.

71. (used of arms and legs) Bent outward with the joint away from the body.

73. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group.

74. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs.

75. Consistent with fact or reality.

76. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environmen­t. 79.The sediment from fermentati­on of an

alcoholic beverage.

80. Posing no difficulty.

81. An unnaturall­y frenzied or distraught woman.

82. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.

DOWN

1. A small cake leavened with yeast.

2. A port city in northweste­rn Algeria and the country's 2nd largest city.

3. In a stupid manner.

4. A swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississipp­i and Louisiana).

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

6. Goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld.

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

8. A constituti­onal monarchy in southeaste­rn Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.

9. Being one more than one.

10. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.

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

12. Any of various small insectivor­ous American birds chiefly olive-gray in color.

13. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.

14. A genus of delicate ferns belonging to the family Osmundacea­e.

20. An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania.

23. A poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States.

26. Of or concerning Qatar.

27. God of wealth and love.

29. A large number or amount.

31. Read anew.

33. A river in northeaste­rn Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean.

38. A small ball with a hole through the middle.

39. A unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad.

40. Excessivel­y fat.

41. A person who gives a name or names.

43. A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.

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

52. Type genus of family Lophiidae. 53.The use of bacteria or viruses of toxins

to destroy men and animals or food.

54. Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves.

56. A boy or man.

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

59. Having a feeling of home.

61.The cardinal number that is the sum of

seven and one.

63. Long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant.

65. English prelate noted for his pessimisti­c sermons and articles (18601954).

66.Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere. 68.The basic unit of money in Cambodia.

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

70. An independen­t agency of the United States government responsibl­e for aviation and spacefligh­t.

72. A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere.

77. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

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

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