Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The process of using your mind to consider something carefully
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- A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
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- The early stage of growth or development
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- The time of person's life when they are a ___
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- The end of life
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- How long something has existed
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- Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one
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- A series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
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- A party of people assembled to promote ___ and communal activity
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- A fully developed person from maturity onward
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- The youngest member of a group
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- An immature ___ person
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- The secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has (plural)
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