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    Feb 23, 2020 5 minutes

    QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker

    Puzzle No 1560

    Clues across

    1. What is the North American term for petrol? (8)

    7. In music, what is “performed with all voices or instruments together”? (5)

    8. What is a thermometer designed to measure high temperatures, especially in furnaces and kilns? (9)

    9. What pale, blind eel-like salamander lives in underground streams? (3)

    10. In the film Return of the Jedi, who reveals his age to be 900? (4)

    11. What has a core of graphite powder mixed with a clay binder? (6)

    13/14. For his eleventh labour, what did Hercules steal from a group of nymphs known as the Hesperides? (6,6)

    17. What is a hen in its first year? (6)

    18. Since 1844, who has aimed to develop a healthy “body, mind, and spirit”? (1,1,1,1)

    20. What tool is

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