Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
- 1 Across
- To get or gather together
- 5 Across
- The liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking
- 7 Across
- To assemble without order or sense
- 9 Across
- An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
- 11 Across
- A groove or furrow in cloth etc
- 12 Across
- A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
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- A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- 16 Across
- A power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc
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- A government tax on imports or exports
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- Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
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- An ocean trip taken for pleasure
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- A note explaining an absence
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- Having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
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- Conformity to reality or actuality
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- A characteristic state of feeling
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