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1 radiate 5 long, thin metal thread with various uses 9 percolate / exude 10 help in wrongdoing 11 (British) thank you 13 familiarizes 17 mountain 19 symbol of gold 20 an infant during its first month of life 21 three-toed sloth 22 ascertain / substantiate 25 acme 26 mother-of-pearl 29 comfort 30 touched/hit with the toe or paw 32 a wind musical instrument 33 jumbled letters to read ‘perm’ 35 merit / deserve 37 kiln for drying hops, malt, tobacco 38 lighted up 39 a fit of anger / pique 40 wash / bathe 41 in the middle of 43 utters a long, mournful cry 47 formerly 50 a city in Metro Manila, Philippines 52 constrictor / anaconda 53 appraise 54 street 55 endless / forever 58 spelling 59 Electrical Engineer 60 affliction 61 pronoun 62 hinged metal fastening for a door, a window 64 at / over / to a distance 67 emmets 68 periods in

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1 depart / leave 2 ‘__ _ _ and behold’ 3 pure, fresh air 4 (contr.) we are 5 rate of energy in an electric circuit 6 Norwegian poet and playwright 7 anent 8 (French) ‘and’ 11 strip of woven material for tying up / for fastening 12 ambience 14 smallest possible amount 15 (Archaic) enough 16 back of the neck 17 fully mature female horse 18 bound 23 passage of a solvent through a semipermeable partition into a more concentrated solution 24 balcony 27 reaches a destination 28 brings to a focus 30 trivial / insignificant 31 handles / copes with 34 letter of the Greek alphabet 36 in the manner of 41 semicircular and domed / vaulted roof of a church 42 partner 44 jumbled letters to read ‘lobe’ 45 creeping, burrowing parasite with long slender body without limbs 46 an alley 48 ornamental band over the shoulder or around the waist 49 kind, class or group having distinguishing characteristics 51 leavening / fermenting agent 53 change 56 gratuities 57 poker player’s stake 62 expression 63 indefinite article 65 musical note 66 pluralizing suffix