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1 burn superficially or lightly 6 uncovers 10 roots / sources 14 regard / consider 16 spring up / begin 17 mine entrance 18 afflict 20 kind of tree 21 Spanish shout of joy, triumph 22 preposition / adverb 24 female deer 26 ‘hail' / avenue 27 (chem) the element silver 28 snakelike fish 30 attempt / essay 32 after the manner of 33 before in time, place, order, degree or importance 34 small island 36 Electrical Engineer 37 ‘Information Technology' 38 crag / high rocky hill 39 tree 40 aromatic herb used as flavoring in cooking 41 seine / trap / clear after deductions 42 ‘ante meridiem' / between midnight and noon 44 pluralizing suffix 46 speed up the engine 47 solidify 48 a collection of anecdotes 49 a woman's shapely leg 51 chat / strike quickly and sharply 53 commercial 54 the end 56 idle talk / chatter 58 musical note 59 any stout club, stick, cudgel / a mouse-like mammal with a furry body usually seen flying at night 60 fifth sign of the zodiac 62 also / as well 64 color of unbleached linen / beige 65 a Slavic people and natives of Serbia, Yugoslavia 67 an axe-like tool for trimming and smoothing wood 68 a belief not based on absolute certainty but on what seems true, valid or probable to one's own mind / a judgment 70 (ancient Greek) a place of assembly, especially a marketplace 71 ‘The Philippines is the ‘_ _ _ _ _ of the orient seas'

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2 notion 3 leave / depart 4 period in history 5 nimble 6 a unit 7 postscript 8 localized swelling 9 unburnt sundried brick 11 anger 12 doctrine / set of beliefs 13 the theater / period, level of degree in a process of development, growth 15 the middle 17 beer / lager 19 a plot of ground / one's portion in life / a great number or amount 21 eggs 23 craved / longed 25 before 26 high in pitch / alternate 27 reaching one's destination 29 purposeful, malicious lie about someone / calumny 31 Archaic form of ‘you' 32 three-toed sloth 33 buffling question 35 young child 38 dark, thick, flammable liquid distilled from wood or coal and used as preservative of wood and iron, in making roads, as antiseptic 42 conjunction 43 pa's mate 44 ‘for example' 45 droop 47 looked fixedly 48 emmet 50 small rug / piece of resilient material for landing on in gymnastics, wrestling 52 facilitates or prepares / overlays 54 water 55 non-flowering plants with roots, stems and fronds and reproduce by spores instead of by seeds 57 snakes that crush their prey in their coils / a woman's long scarf worn around the neck or shoulders 59 boast 60 Hawaiian wreath of flowers and leaves worn about the neck 61 Japanese sash 63 smell / scent 65 curative health spring 66 bread soaked in milk, gravy / standing operating procedure 68 completes ‘either' 69 northeast