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3. Domestic male fowl (7) 8. Llama-related animal with long silky wool (6) 9. Fertilise (6) 10. The _______ Afrikaner is a South African breed of hardy sheep (7) 11. Plant () with a pungent, strong-smelling bulb much used in cooking (6) 12. An Indian monkey; the macaque (6) 13. Trailing instruments for breaking up soil (7) 15. A region's flora and fauna (5) 18. Domain (5) 21. Memory loss (7) 23. Slaughterhouse (8) 24. Tropical shrub yielding red and green peppers (8) 26. Large aquatic North American rodent resembling a vole (7) 27. Covered in thin plates, as a fish (5) 30. Nodes or joints in grass stems (5) 33. Natural divisions of the year (7) 35. Semi-liquid food made from fermented milk, often flavoured with fruit (6) 36. Starting point (6) 37. Acquire previously held knowledge again (7) 38. Taxonomic groups directly under families (6) 39. Genus of plants of the Cruciferae family which includes candytuft (6) 40. Container providing nutrition to an embryo in the egg (4,3)
