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ACROSS
1 - Negligent 6 - Sarcastic 11 - Elide 12 - Land of the
kangaroo (abb.) 14 - Soviet mountains 15 - Mystic Sanskrit
word 16 - Less complicated N - Pronoun 20 - One of King
Arthur's knights 22 - Taker of affidavits
(abb.) 23 - I\jbllc announcement
24 - Male nickname 25 - Investing with ministerial
functions 26 - To Incite 28 - Preposition 2V - Delirium tremens 30 - Dolt 32 - Exclamation 33 - Roman deuce 34 - Notable feats 37 - To swagger 40 - Cylinder 41 - Directs 42 - Violent 44 - Sun god
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