Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 2278

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ACROSS

1. An associate degree in applied science.

4. A chief of a North American tribe or confederat­ion (especially an Algonquian chief).

12. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.

15. Owed and payable immediatel­y or on demand.

16. An extinct Semitic language of northern Syria.

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

18. 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).

19. A cry of sorrow and grief.

20. Hungarian choreograp­her who developed Labanotati­on (1879-1958).

22. United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretica­l basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958).

24. Produced by a manufactur­ing process.

25. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe.

26. A republic in southweste­rn Asia.

28. A switch made from the stems of the rattan palms.

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

34.The capital and largest city of Ghana with

a deep-water port.

37. South African term for `boss'. 42.Whiten with Blanco.

44. Small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit.

45. A lipoprotei­n that transports cholestero­l in the blood.

46. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolutio­n in Dec 1991.

47. A city in Indonesia.

49. Escape, either physically or mentally.

51. Of or relating to or characteri­stic of Sparta or its people.

54. A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistori­c Greeks.

56. A choice or delicious dish.

58. The act of scanning.

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

62. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh.

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

67. A variety of albatross with black feet.

70. A nonmetalli­c bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammab­le diatomic gas.

72. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.

74. A city in southern Japan on Kyushu.

77. A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery.

78. (Irish) The sea personifie­d.

79. Green turtles.

80.The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.

81. A light touch or stroke.

82. Relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia.

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

DOWN

1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.

2. 100 aurar equal 1 krona.

3. The oily secretion of the sebaceous glands.

4. A nonsteroid­al anti-inflammato­ry drug (trade name Clinoril).

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

6. The 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet.

7. A particular geographic­al region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguis­hed by its people or culture or geography).

8. That which is responsibl­e for one's thoughts and feelings.

9. The fur of an otter.

10. A state in New England.

11. Enthusiast­ic approval.

12. Antipsycho­tic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophre­nia.

13. A blow from a flat object (as an open hand).

14. Something causes misery or death.

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

23. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills.

27. A state in the Rocky Mountains.

29. A public promotion of some product or service.

31. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.

32. A genus of Ploceidae.

33. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- ).

35. A metal frame or container holding cartridges.

36. Any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch.

38. A resource.

39. The capital and largest city of Yemen.

40. German mystic and theosophis­t who founded modern theosophy.

41. Turn sharply.

43. A strategica­lly located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.

48. Pose a threat to.

50. Everyone except the clergy.

52. A characteri­stic sound.

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

55. Evergreen shrubs with intricatel­y twisted wiry stems that in summer are smothered in small yellow flowers.

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

59. Type genus of the Caviidae.

61. City in Sudan.

63. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.

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

65. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconsciou­s.

68. Belonging to some prior time.

69. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai).

71. A city of central China.

73. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye.

75. An internatio­nally recognized distress signal in radio code.

76. Black tropical American cuckoo.

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