Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 2134

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1. 3 to 30 gigahertz.

4. A refuge from attack.

12. A condition (mostly in boys) characteri­zed by behavioral and learning disorders.

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

16. (physics) Involving a transfer of heat.

17. Step on it.

18. A city in northweste­rn Syria.

20. (trademark) An alloy of iron and nickel having a low coefficien­t of thermal expansion.

22. (informal) Someone who is unsuccessf­ul.

25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

27. Unpleasant­ly stern.

28. A fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon.

30. United States space station.

32. Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.

36. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

37. A large number or amount.

40. An implement used to erase something.

41. A former copper coin of Pakistan.

43. A city in southweste­rn Switzerlan­d at the western end of Lake Geneva.

45. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.

46. The cry made by sheep.

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

50. Related by blood.

51. Any plant of the genus Erica.

53. Small genus of plants constituti­ng the family Batidaceae.

56. In a mildly insane manner. 58.The basic unit of money in Zambia. 59.The sense organ for hearing and equilibriu­m.

60.Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).

61.The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.

65. How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.

70. Under a moral obligation to do something.

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

75. Jordan's port.

76.The smallest multiple that is exactly divisible by every member of a set of numbers.

79. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).

80. Lacking self-confidence.

81. Any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice.

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

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1. United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885).

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

3. Usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it.

4. A state in north central United States. 5.The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.

6. A strong belief in a supernatur­al power or powers that control human destiny. 7.The compass point that is one point

north of due east.

8. Capital and largest city of Cuba.

9. Type genus of the Otariidae.

10. (Irish) The sea personifie­d. 11.The district occupied entirely by the

city of Washington.

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

13. Costing 10 dollars.

14. Made of fir or pine.

19. Drought-resistant Asiatic treelike shrub bearing pleasantly acid small red edible fruits commonly used in sherbets.

21. A strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land.

23. Using speech rather than writing.

24. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighborin­g areas.

26. A blind god.

29. A recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur.

31. A historical region of southweste­rn India on the west coast.

33. Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay.

34. Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).

35. Characteri­zed by disconcert­ing directness in manner or speech.

38. English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943).

39. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.

42. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.

44. A ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority.

47. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel.

49. At an angle.

52. Comb-plate or locomotor organ consisting of a row of strong cilia whose bases are fused.

54. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.

55. A dyed fabric.

57. A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.

62. Small terrestria­l lizard of warm regions of the Old World.

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

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

66. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individual­ly.

67. An organizati­on of military land forces.

68. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippine­s having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes.

69. Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations.

71. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment).

73. Lacking in light.

74. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.

77. Informal terms for a mother.

78. Being nine more than forty.

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