Everyday Explorations Crossword

Everyday Explorations is a medium English-language crossword with 30 clues. A mixed Brain Boost with words, everyday knowledge and fresh connections

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Across

1. Personal failings or bad habits
6. Treat an animal hide to make leather
9. Narrow arm of the sea reaching inland
10. Summon over a public-address system
11. Feed a fire to make it burn more strongly
12. Primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees
13. Large unit of weight used for heavy loads
14. Mother or father
16. Fills with wonder or reverent admiration
18. Small vehicles often pulled by horses
19. Commercial buying and selling exchanges
21. Asked earnestly or begged
23. Origins or where information comes from
24. Think highly of
25. Explanatory framework accounting for a range of observations

Down

1. Wide scenic view
2. Following behind, as a companion might (2,3)
3. An organism's genetic copy, or an imitation of a successful original
4. Exclamation of mild alarm
5. Single movement of the feet in walking or dancing
6. Gradually narrowed toward one end
7. Representatives who act for someone else
8. Structures built by birds for eggs or young
10. Public processions with floats and bands
15. Specialized school for training or arts
17. Sound reproduction using two channels
20. Participant in a speed contest
21. Fancy and fashionable
22. Plucked string instrument with a rounded body
23. Group of games within a tennis match

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