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ACROSS
1)  an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
2)  remove with or as if with a ladle
3)  a sign of something about to happen
4)  a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold


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1)  a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
2)  someone who doesn't understand what is going on
3)  a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
4)  a yearning for something or to do something

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