GENERAL CROSSWORD

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1. Bone of the leg (5)

4. Supernatural beings (6)

7. Period (3)

8. Deep purplish-red (6)

9. Youthful (6)

10. One seeking to marry into wealth (7-6)

14. Series of words (5)

15. Plant fibre (5)

18. Sweets (13)

23. A betrothed man (6)

24. Poignantly contrary (6)

25. A jumble of sound (3)

26. Complete (6)

27. Water birds (5)

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1. A sheet of paper once folded (5)

2. A quality deserving praise (5)

3. Part of the eye (6)

4. South American cowboy (6)

5. Sophia ___, Hollywood actress (5)

6. Tree of the genus Acer (5)

10. A kind of B vitamin (5)

11. Such as amber or balsam (5)

12. To distinguish flavour (5)

13. A fresh team (5)

16. Concur (6)

17. Installing electric wires (6)

19. Variety of allium (5)

20. Mushroom kingdom (5)

21. A snare (5)

22. Lift (5)