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🔎 Medium 13×13 · Hard · ID medium-hard-15

Medium Crossword No. 15 (Hard)

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Medium Crossword No. 15 (Hard)ID medium-hard-15
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Across

  1. 1Flat floating boat (4)
  2. 5Occupied (4)
  3. 9Shin bone (5)
  4. 10Therefore (5)
  5. 11Flip over (5)
  6. 12Praying insect (6)
  7. 13Wager (3)
  8. 14Ghost (7)
  9. 16Hunting dog (5)
  10. 17Cube in a cold drink (3)
  11. 20Soft felt hat (6)
  12. 22Slow-cooked meal (4)
  13. 23Male bee, or a flying robot (5)
  14. 24Shovel or a card suit (5)
  15. 25Push out (4)
  16. 26Outfit (6)
  17. 28Golf ball's perch (3)
  18. 29Clever (5)
  19. 30Device with moving parts (7)
  20. 33Word for a woman talked about (3)
  21. 36Pale (6)
  22. 37Sum (5)
  23. 39Noble gas in light bulbs (5)
  24. 40Store worker (5)
  25. 41Pair (4)
  26. 42Rope fiber (4)

Down

  1. 1Ready to eat (4)
  2. 2Help someone do wrong (4)
  3. 3What a fish uses to steer (3)
  4. 4Baby frog (7)
  5. 5Not straight (4)
  6. 6Old word for "to" (4)
  7. 7Curved Middle Eastern sword (8)
  8. 8Answer that means agree (3)
  9. 9Place for a bubble bath (3)
  10. 10Clock pointer (4)
  11. 12A lot of (4)
  12. 15Center of activity (3)
  13. 16Small clue (4)
  14. 18Give up (4)
  15. 19Female sheep (3)
  16. 20Real (4)
  17. 21Fragrant needle-leaved herb (8)
  18. 22Cooking skewer (4)
  19. 23Period at the end of a sentence (3)
  20. 24Reach out (7)
  21. 26In the middle of (4)
  22. 27Light brown (3)
  23. 29Front of the lower leg (4)
  24. 31Pond scum plant (4)
  25. 32Lump of dirt (4)
  26. 33Flower stalk (4)
  27. 34Large plucked instrument (4)
  28. 35North American stag (3)
  29. 36Where lily frogs sit (3)
  30. 38Bullfighter's cheer (3)
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