Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Green parts of a tree that fall in autumn
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- A small hard fruit (plural)
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- Sweet food that grows on plants
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- A division of some larger or more complex organization (plural)
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- The metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules
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- Made of or containing or resembling ___
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- Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored (plural)
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- The act of storing something
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- A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart
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- A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
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- Any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms
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- The rays of the sun
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- Something having the property of being analogous to something else
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- To cause to go into a solution
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- A communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same
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- Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
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