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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Bold" size="9">ACROSS</lang>
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">1 Anthropologist Margaret
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">5 Singer Ronnie
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">11 Car bar
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">12 New York tribe
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">13 Brazenness
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">14 Off the path
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">15 Copies
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">17 Opening
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">18 Diving positions
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">22 Crow
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">24 Spending binge
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">25 Colony member
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">26 Binary digit
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">27 Feeds the pigs
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">30 Accords
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">32 Pancake topper
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">33 Swearing-in vow
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">34 Address ends
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">38 Frying sound
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">41 Irritate
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">42 Ring islands
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">43 “Frozen” queen
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">44 Unassuming
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">45 Woodland grazer
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Bold" size="9">DOWN</lang>
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">1 Christmas travelers
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">2 Final, for one
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">3 Big reptile
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">4 River areas
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">5 Castle circler
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">6 Detail maps
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">7 Abates
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">8 Polite address
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">9 Oklahoma city
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">10 Fork over
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">16 Fitting
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">19 Big reptile
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">20 English county
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">21 Espies
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">22 Deep voice
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">23 Just
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">28 This is one
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">29 Kitchen goofs
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">31 Cherished
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">35 Mosquito or gnat
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">36 Different
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">37 Scorch
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">38 Sleuth Spade
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">39 “How was — know?”
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">40 General who’s a foe of Superman</lang>
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