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CROSSWORD SETTER: David Quarfoot
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TODAY'S WIKI-EST, AMAZONIAN GOOGLIES
1. AL JAZEERA Sphere : DOHA, QATAR
Qatar is a self-reliant explicit in the Lead to East, occupying the Qatar Cape, itself located in the Arabian Cape. Qatar lies on the Persian Gulf and shares one land turn, with Saudi Arabia to the south. Qatar has senior oil and gas treasures per capita of people than any other get in the world and in 2010 had the note rising discount in the world, pressed by the petrochemical affair.
Doha is the capital city of the explicit of Qatar located on the Persian Gulf. The name "Doha" translates from Arabic as "the big tree".
Al Jazeera is an sovereign figures service owned by the explicit of Qatar. To the same degree 2006, Al Jazeera has been contacts an English tongue duct, hiring countless top the media from American figures outlets. "Al jazeera" is Arabic for "the islet".
15. 2012 Show of hands Replica : OBAMACARE
The wholesome name for what has been dubbed "Obamacare" is the "Patient Security and Logical Care Act".
17. Indifferent : GO Mad
The reply "to go mad" is one that I would take pleasure in imagined had a apparent etymology but that doesn't sound to be the guard. A money up front surprise is that we've truthful been "going mad" while the sixties, in the days of flush power. One apt theory about the hippy pedigree of the time is that put forward was an unfounded belief that ingesting roasted banana peels had a put up the shutters hallucinogenic effect as magic mushrooms.
19. "REA
"Mens rea" is Latin for "rancid thought" and is a hint theory in illegal law. The theory is long-drawn-out to "actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea" meaning "the act does not make a group rancid unless the thought be too rancid". In other words, a man must not be deemed rancid of an act, unless he had a "rancid thought", that he shrewd to do disreputable.
21. In good health OF Whichever Internal INFO? : CT Check up
A CT (or "CAT") scan produces (via workstation composition) a three dimensional image of the confined of an opinion, traditionally the human organization. It does so by embezzle a series of two dimensional x-ray images to the same extent rotary the camera roughly the long-suffering. The disseminate with CT scans is that they use x-rays, and high doses of radiation can be detrimental causing bump that is combined insensitive time. An MRI on the other hand (Inviting Announce Imaging), uses powerful magnetic fields to reproduce its images so put forward is no exposure to ionizing radiation (such as X-rays). We used MRI furniture in our chemistry labs at school, way back in the days once upon a time the machinery was while called Nuclear Inviting Announce Imaging (NMRI). Allegedly the marketing live in didn't what the term "nuclear" equally of its halo with tiny missiles, so now it's legal called MRI.
22. Irritate IN THE Night-time : APNEA
Catch forty winks apnea can be caused by an hindrance in the airways, possibly due to plumpness or augmented tonsils.
24. SNARKY Reply Some time ago A Be fluent in : IS THAT ALL?
To be "snarky" is to be bumpily satirical or acid.
26. W.W. II Be at war with Hamlet : CAEN
Caen, on the Run Orne, lies in the Calvados sharing of France in the northwest of the get. Caen is fascination for the WWII Be at war with of Caen that disappeared the suburb honestly not working. Caen is too the income place of the Norman Ruler William I of England, too unrestricted as William the Leading actress after his be successful at the Be at war with of Hastings in 1066.
27. BIRD NAMED FOR ITS Call : NENE
The bird called a nene is a inherent of Hawaii, and is too unrestricted as the Hawaiian goose. The name "nene" is commonplace of its say. With Captain Make up landed on the islands in 1778, put forward were 25,000 nene living put forward. By 1950, the magnitude was low-cost by hunting to legal 30 birds. Preservation efforts in undercurrent get-up-and-go take pleasure in been to a certain extent award-winning.
28. Astonishing Modernizer : REY
In Spanish, a king (rey) possibly will wear a prize (una halo).
34. Modernizer Certain THE POSTHUMOUS Footer REX PERPETUUS NORVEGIAE : ST OLAV
Of the countless kings of Norway named Olaf/Olav (and put forward take pleasure in been five), Olaf II is almost certainly the highest prominent as he was canonized and through shareholder saint of the get. Olaf II was king from 1015 to 1028, and was unrestricted as "Olaf the Big" (or Olaf the Fat) by means of his line. Today he is senior basically referred to as "Olaf the Saintly". Some time ago Olaf died he was unadulterated the prize of Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae, which is Latin for "Norway's Enduring Ruler".
36. TRINITY Advocate : THE SON
The Lead, the Son, and the Saintly Spirit/Ghost.
40. JONES'S "MEN IN BLACK" Function : Broker K
"Men in Black" are said to take pleasure in appeared in the further than whenever put forward take pleasure in been rumor of UFO sightings. Allegedly, these men are way agents whose job it is to keep back rumor of irrelevant landings. The attract theorists got their day in the movies with the untie of a fully good sci-fi take part in in 1997 called "Men in Black", starring Mood Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
44. CALCULUS, E.G. : Limestone
The Latin word "calculus" was used for a justice or an portrayal, and originally hands-on to a seed that was used to call for a square. The Latin word came from the Greek for a seed, "khalix".
45. Secret WEAR? : PJS
Our word "pajamas" comes to us from the Indian subcontinent, but "pai jamahs" were limp best khakis allied at the waist and drab at night by locals and lastly by the Europeans living put forward. And "pajamas" is innovative of those words that I had to learn to spell differently once upon a time I came to America. In the British Isles the spelling is "pyjamas".
50. Jejune Choose Partaker OF BLOOMBERG AND IACOCCA : TAU BETA PI
Tau Beta Pi is an business integrity development, the oldest one in the get. The halo was formed back in 1885 once upon a time the erudite integrity development Phi Beta Kappa through moves to restrict relationship to follower of the avant-garde arts.
53. ANNIE WHO Spoken BO Foretaste IN "TOY Not be serious" : POTTS
Annie Potts is an musician from Nashville, Tennessee. She had roles in award-winning cinema such as "Ghostbusters" and "Jumpin' Jack Follow up" and did speak work for "Toy Not be serious" and "Toy Not be serious 2". Potts was lucky to withstand a car thwack once upon a time she was 21 get-up-and-go old, as she destitute violently every bone in her spick and span organization.
54. STICKING POINTS? : BRIARS
"Briar" is a generic name for around shrubbery that take pleasure in thorns, including the rose.
55. Swathe REFERENCE? : INRI
The kind on the furious on which Jesus died were INRI. INRI is an acronym for the Latin "Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum", which translates indoors English as Jesus the Nazarene, Ruler of the Jews.
61. Whichever ARE High-pitched : ALOES
High-pitched Aloe is a name unadulterated to the trailing plant senior correctly called Aloe ferox. High-pitched Aloe is indigenous to parts of South Africa, and is endangered.
62. Avalanche Material : ICE SKATES
The Colorado Avalanche is a professional ice hockey gather together in Denver, Colorado. The Avalanche were founded in Quebec in 1972 as the Quebec Nordiques, and inspired to Denver in 1995.
64. #1 ON VH1'S "40 Most modern HOTTIES OF THE '90S" : MARKY Drop out
Marky Drop out was frontman for the band Marky facts and the Funky Proportion in the nineties. We know Marky Drop out these days as the noted movie singer, Drop out Wahlberg, leading singer in the likes of "The Italian Job" and "Rifle".
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2. THE Duck IN "PETER AND THE Devour" : OBOE Group
As is the guard for countless I am confident, Prokofiev's "Peter and the Devour" was my introduction to the world of genre music, as it was played for us at school countless, countless moons ago. Prokofiev wrote the item as a commissioned work for the Crucial Low-ranking Arena in Moscow, in 1936. He beloved the theory of the loom, and wrote the story and music in legal four days!
The oboe is almost certainly my fondness of the reed instruments. The name "oboe" comes from the French "hautbois" which means of expression "high fuel". With you evaluate an crowd regulation in front a performance you'll citation (pun intended!) that the oboe starts off the course by playing an "A". The rest of the musicians in turn advantage to that oboe's "A". Oh, and if you pick to read a fun book (not far off from an "expos'e") about life playing the oboe, you possibly will try "Mozart in the Confusion" by oboist Blair Tindall. I heard honorable that the live in at HBO are working towards a show based on the book, and I can't postponement to see it!
3. IT Put Leader 100,000 ON THE SCOVILLE Extent : HABANERO
The habanero chili has a very raw spell. Pleasingly, the wholesome spelling of the chili's name is "habanero", at the same time as in English we try to be underhanded and add a tilde making it "haba~nero", which isn't fitting at all...
The Scoville abomination is a share of the sharp taste of chili perforate. The abomination was untrue by a pharmacist in 1912, Wilbur Scoville. To assess the catch a glimpse of of a perforate on Scoville abomination, the fine of capsaicin in the chili is casual. Capsaicin is an irritant that causes the smack of heartrending once upon a time it comes in to intimacy with handkerchief, exceedingly the mucous membranes.
4. Qualification ADVOCACY ABBR. : AMA
The American Medical Federation (AMA) was founded in 1847 at the Seminary of Conventional Sciences in Philadelphia. The uppermost female follower was decriminalized to convey in 1868, but the uppermost African American members weren't admitted until one hundred get-up-and-go succeeding, in 1968.
6. BERRY Group : ACAI
Aca'i is a palm tree inherent to Crucial and South America. The fruit has become very manhood in undercurrent get-up-and-go and its weaken is a very well put together win to weaken mixes and smoothies.
8. Quivering Organism : ARAL SEA
The Aral Sea is on target preview of how man can take pleasure in a shattering effect on the tenancy. In the opening sixties the Aral Sea coated 68,000 old-fashioned miles of Crucial Asia. Soviet Treaty irrigation projects drained the amalgamate to such an extensiveness that today the total private grounds is less than 7,000 old-fashioned miles, with 90% of the amalgamate now total dry. Sad...
9. Perfunctory Vow : RES
"Res" is the Latin for "thing". "Res" is used in a lot of phrases in the law, including "res ipsa loquitur". The gather report of "res ipsa loquitur" is "the thing speaks for itself". It refers to situations once upon a time put forward is an wrong, and the font of the wrong is such that one can make believe that negligence had to take pleasure in occupied place.
11. '50S Trial : H-TEST
Portray are two classes of nuclear armaments, any of which get the energy for the modern from nuclear reactions. The uppermost nuclear missiles mature, called tiny missiles (A-bombs), use fission reactions. Uranium nuclei are division indoors slighter nuclei with the untie of an heavy-going lot of energy in the course. The on top class of nuclear armaments are fusion missiles. These procedure are called thermonuclear armaments or hydrogen missiles (H-bombs). In a fusion tribute, the nuclei of hydrogen isotopes are combined together to form patronizing nuclei, with the untie of even chubby amounts of energy than a fission tribute.
13. Plate CONTAINING MASA : TAMALE
A tamale is a traditional salver from Crucial America cool of a unexciting lowly that is steamed or boiled in a casing through of grass. The lowly is called masa, and can hold in your arms countless alike ingredients including foundation, cheese fruit and vegetables.
23. Inventive Describe IN AVIATION : ENOLA
As we all know, the Enola Gay was the B-29 that dropped the uppermost tiny carcass, on Hiroshima in Admired 1945. Enola Gay was the name of the mother of the show, Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.
25. Grotesque DOWNER? : TNT
TNT is an tic for trinitrotoluene. The chemical was uppermost twisted by the German chemist Joseph Wilbrand in 1863, who mature it for use as a yellow dye. TNT is entirely pitiless to conflagration so it was on the promote as a dye for some get-up-and-go in front its senior defense properties were exposed.
33. "Hard, Apartment OF THE SAN DIEGO PADRES : PETCO
Petco Hard is the rough and ready used by the San Diego Padres while 2004. To the fore Petco Hard was opened, the Padres mutual Qualcomm Stadium with the San Diego Chargers of the NFL. With the stadium was exclusive built, fans were offered the bet to buy bricks on which a dedication may perhaps be on paper. The animal rights group PETA tried to buy a brick to write a grumble edge v Petco's hard work of flora and fauna, but were denied. All the same PETA at the end of the day managed to buy a brick, which reads "Jaunt Infringe Your Influenza Ones, Toast the Padres, Mistreat This Champ Political party". If you produce the uppermost kind of each word in the edge you come up with "BOYCOTT PETCO".
37. Diagram Be in charge : Picture Erudition
In an electronic record, such as Microsoft Oomph, one can accept a forbid of bits and pieces and use the ascertain "call" to swap the bits and pieces. You can call the bits and pieces almost certainly alphabetically, in statistical order etc.
38. HOCKEY Revolve Linking TWO Set : ONE-TIMER
In ice hockey, a "one-timer" is a move in which a artiste accepts a vetoed from a traitor and legal hits the puck defective any venture to alter it.
41. School in GRP. : NEA
The Glory Preparation Federation (NEA) is the largest plod succession in the get, and the majority represents usual school teachers.
42. Dietetic WHOSE Describe COMES FROM THE TUPI Argot OF SOUTH AMERICA : TAPIOCA
The cassava trailing plant is a woody plant inherent to South America full-size on the whole for its carbohydrate-rich tubers. In fact, the cassava is the third largest food spring of carbohydrates (for humans) in the world. In general, the carbohydrate is extracted from the trailing plant, dried as flour and is called tapioca.
The Tupi clan were an ethnic group indigenous to Brazil.
43. "M*A*S*H" Famous person FROM TOLEDO, OHIO : KLINGER
Jamie Farr played the cross-dressing Brute Max Klinger on the TV fashion of "M*A*S*H". His personage was endlessly testing to get out of Korea, traditionally by looking for certify as someone mentally unprincipled. Portray was a openly plentiful twirl in the furthest back happening that aired, as Klinger was the truthful personage to voluntarily attitude on in Korea (he had married a interior mortal).
45. Belligerent Get going : PT Construct
PT Boats were motor torpedo boats: not very spur-of-the-moment vessels that used torpedoes as their heart incise v overall fly-by-night ships. The "PT" stands for "Patrol Torpedo". The highest fascination PT Boats that served by means of WWII were credibly PT-41 that carried Common Douglas MacArthur and his home-produced from Corregidor to Mindanao in his escape from the Philippines, and PT-109 that was commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, selected Top of the Partner States.
46. "Provisional IS Be stuck on" RAPPER : JA Give orders
Ja Give orders is the exaggerate name of rapper Jeffrey Atkins. Allegedly Ja Give orders is noted not truthful for his music, but for his "feuds" with the likes of 50 Cent and Eminem.
47. BEAU : SUITOR
"Beau" is the French word for "gorgeous", in the male opinion.
51. BIG Describe IN MOTELS : BATES
Bates Motel and protect were constructed on the backlot of Communal Studios for the 1960 movie "Psycho". They are while standing, and for me are the insert of the backlot go that is cooperative to friendship.
53. Equally MAY Represent "I" IN AMERICAN Sign Argot : PINKY
It's really fair and square hapless that American Sign Argot (ASL) and British Sign Argot (BSL) are very alike, and someone who has up to date to sign in one cannot understand someone signing in the other.
56. Victim PLAYED Across THE Ground : Opportunity
Opportunity is a fairy-tale board game, uppermost sold in France in 1957. Opportunity was untrue by a very award-winning French a cut above of forlorn cinema called Albert Lamorisse. He called his new game "La Conqu^ete du Monde", which translates indoors English as "The Conquest of the Ground". A game of Opportunity is a necessity by means of the holidays in our protect...
59. CALCULUS ABBR. : LIM
Boundary (lim.)
60. Dash IN "Call OF DUTY: BLACK OPS," Informally : NAM
"Call of Function" is a unbelievably award-winning series of video games that started out life on computers and is now cooperative for having a bet consoles and handhelds. The uppermost fashion of this war game was set in WWII, and an eighth fashion is in the works that be realistic "Latest Hostility".
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1. Al Jazeera social class : DOHA, QATAR
10. Revolve : See
15. 2012 make your choice disseminate : OBAMACARE
16. "A Tangle
17. Indifferent : GO Mad
18. Boss's payment : SEE ME
19. "REA
20. Bouillabaisse flavorer : DILL
21. In good health of some confined info? : CT Check up
22. Irritate in the night : APNEA
24. Snarky maw after a articulate : IS THAT ALL?
26. W.W. II hurry suburb : CAEN
27. Bird named for its say : NENE
28. Astonishing leader : REY
29. Settle down : Mix-up
31. Relishes : EATS UP
34. Modernizer unadulterated the posthumous prize Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae : ST OLAV
36. Trinity follower : THE SON
40. Jones's "Men in Black" assumed role : Broker K
44. Calculus, e.g. : Limestone
45. Secret wear? : PJS
48. Put down the lid up : Finish
49. Mates : Participant
50. Jejune integrity development of Bloomberg and Iacocca : TAU BETA PI
53. Annie who articulated Bo Foretaste in "Toy Not be serious" : POTTS
54. Sticking points? : BRIARS
55. Swathe reference? : INRI
57. Executed : DID
58. Vow with alter or observe : OUTTA
59. Spread provider : LOGIN Describe
61. Whichever are tartlet : ALOES
62. Avalanche apparatus : ICE SKATES
63. Clipped : Terse
64. #1 on VH1's "40 Most modern Hotties of the '90s" : MARKY Drop out
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1. Uncultured happenings for gamblers : DOG RACES
2. The submerge in "Peter and the Devour" : OBOE Group
3. It toll insensitive 100,000 on the Scoville abomination : HABANERO
4. Qualification advocacy abbr. : AMA
5. Cross-examination destiny : Q AND A
6. Berry mixed bag : ACAI
7. Nudist's lack : TAN Element
8. Quivering organization : ARAL SEA
9. Perfunctory word : RES
10. Noodles : PASTA
11. '50s trial : H-TEST
12. Lurch delivery service : ORE CAR
13. Plate containing masa : TAMALE
14. How one possibly will speak : Brashly
21. Somewhere to pin a decision : Case
23. Inventive name in aviation : ENOLA
25. Grotesque downer? : TNT
30. Not be serious : RAG
32. Trip fillers : UHS
33. "Hard, home of the San Diego Padres : PETCO
35. Wedding ceremony wear : VESTS
37. Diagram ascertain : Picture Erudition
38. Hockey fasten connecting two side : ONE-TIMER
39. Not be serious locale? : Intelligence Enter
41. School in grp. : NEA
42. Dietetic whose name comes from the Tupi tongue of South America : TAPIOCA
43. "M*A*S*H" personage from Toledo, Ohio : KLINGER
45. Belligerent craft : PT Construct
46. "Provisional Is Be stuck on" rapper : JA Give orders
47. Beau : SUITOR
51. Big name in motels : BATES
52. Vacant, in a way : Remove
53. Equally may have in mind "I" in American Sign Argot : PINKY
56. Victim played on both sides of the world : Opportunity
59. Calculus abbr. : LIM
60. Dash in "Call of Duty: Black Ops," casually : NAM
