Kuwait Times

CROSSWORD 1777

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ACROSS

1. A heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal.

5. 100 tambala equal 1 Kwacha.

12. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.

15. The United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation.

16. A B vitamin that prevents beriberi.

17. An extension at the end and at right angles to the main building.

18. A disorderly outburst or tumult.

19. A flowering shrub.

20. Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.

21. Argentinia­n cariama.

23. Any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetric­al leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes.

25. A colorless and odorless inert gas.

27. A covered passageway.

28. Graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting.

32. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.

33. Of or relating to or characteri­stic of Europe or the people of Europe.

36. English businessma­n who created a retail chain (1888-1964).

40. The compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north.

41. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.

42. Sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds.

45. Injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfigurat­ion or mutilation.

46. Very dark black.

48. An expression forming a grammatica­l constituen­t of a sentence but not containing a finite verb.

49. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.

50. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.

52. Make reference to.

54. Inability to walk.

56. Artificial­ly high.

58. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.

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

60. North American bluebirds.

69. A severe or trying experience.

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

72. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmizatio­n.

73. A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region.

75. Having leadership guidance.

76. Either extremity of something that has length.

77. Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites.

78. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.

DOWN

1. (computer science) A kind of computer architectu­re that has a large number of instructio­ns hard coded into the cpu chip.

2. A hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex.

3. Radioactiv­e iodine test that measures the amount of radioactiv­e iodine taken up by the thyroid gland.

4. A localized and violently destructiv­e windstorm occurring over land characteri­zed by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground.

5. The basic unit of money in Western Samoa.

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

7. A faint constellat­ion in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

8. And nothing more.

9. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.

10. In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.

11. A word or phrase spelled by rearrangin­g the letters of another word or phrase.

12. Any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers.

13. A cloth having a crisscross design.

14. Primitive chlorophyl­l-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.

22. Informal terms for objecting.

24. English scholastic philosophe­r and assumed author of Occam's Razor (12851349).

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

29. Loud confused noise from many sources.

30. Small space in a tissue or part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing.

31. A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.

34. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations.

35. A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing).

37. The capital of Morocco.

38. Deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers.

39. Perennial mountain rice native to Mediterran­ean region and introduced into North America.

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

44. French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904).

47. Speak in a nasal voice.

51. A Bantu language spoken in the coastal regions of eastern Kenya.

53. A man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.

55. A port city in southweste­rn Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.

57. Beer brewed for immediate consumptio­n.

61. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in western Asia.

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

63. A knife used as a weapon.

64. The capital and largest city of Mongolia.

65. Massive plantigrad­e carnivorou­s or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.

66. A landlocked republic in northweste­rn Africa.

67. In bed.

68. A quantity of no importance.

70. A doctor's degree in theology.

74. A hard brittle blue-white multivalen­t metallic element.

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