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1 Summoned 2 A space 3 Lacerate 4 Cleopatra’s finish 5 An amphibious mammal 6 Ditch or trench 7 Popular style of hairdressing 8 Salt water 9 Earth 10 Done with 11 Soft food 12 Troubles 13 Biblical character 14 Produce 17 South American animal 18 Mix 22 Dusk 25 Bar 28 Immediately 30 Self 31 Skill 32 Retreat 34 Shoe latchet 36 Latin verb (form of “to be”) 37 A great menace 38 Evil 39 Not bright 41 Perpetual motion (compound word) 42 Raised platform 44 Used in building 46 Associate 49 Relating to debts 50 A green spot 51 Fairylike 53 A beautiful lake 56 One of Dickens’s characters 57 Finish 58 Consume calories 60 Hawaiian decoration 63 Name of a street 65 Kind of cloth 67 Long ago 68 Change 70 Still 72 A black substance 74 Name of a boat (historical) 76 Corrode 78 Also 79 Through 80 Depressed 82 A rodent 84 Extreme 85 A bird 86 A number 88 Dressed 90 Flat plates 92 Robust 93 Once 95 Glacier ice 97 Thunder 98 Relate 99 Branches 101 Common European gull 103 Possessive pronoun 104 Also 105 Chemical base

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Puzzle No. 146

THE QUESTION MARK