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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 Sacred bird of Egypt
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">5 Milky gems
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">10 Hedgehog of games
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">12 Studio work
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">13 Game with a drawing
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">14 Not napping
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">15 Moody music
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">16 Cariou of “Blue Bloods”
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">18 Lasso of TV
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">19 Muscle connector
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">21 Buds
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">22 Journal words
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">24 Suspicious
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">25 Grassland rodent
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">29 Without
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">30 To some extent
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">32 Botch
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">33 Corp. or Sgt.
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">34 Summer sign
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">37 City on the Mohawk River
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">39 Forum garments
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">40 Shades
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">41 Cleaned, in a way
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">42 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">1 Key
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">2 Sounded like thunder
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">3 Chant
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">4 Remain unused
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">5 Mideast sultanate
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">7 Film set on Pandora
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">8 Probable
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">9 Gardener’s buy
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">11 Salon worker
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">17 Natural
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">20 Valleys
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">21 Settle the bill
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">23 Resolve
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">25 Scopes trial lawyer
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">26 Incense
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">27 Like tears
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">28 Puts up
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">31 Tribute, of a sort
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	<lang class="3" style=".Bodylaser" colour="#000000" orgstyle="[No Paragraph Style]" font="Blacker Pro Display" fontStyle="Regular" size="9">36 Ray-gun sound
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