WORLD 102

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Across
  1. 4. Seemingly contradictory truth
  2. 5. Tall four-sided stone monument
  3. 7. Wall painting on wet plaster
  4. 9. Mexican salamander that stays aquatic
  5. 11. Word or phrase that reads the same backward
  6. 12. Emotional release through drama
  7. 14. Desert antelope with straight horns
  8. 18. Vocabulary of a language
  9. 19. Of doubtful authenticity
  10. 21. Ending passage in music
  11. 22. Arctic whale with a long tusk
  12. 27. Study of being
  13. 28. Introductory section of a play or book
  14. 30. Rhetorical reversal of grammatical structures
  15. 32. Witty concise saying
  16. 34. Egg-laying mammal of Australia
  17. 35. Happy accident of discovery
  18. 36. Spirit of the times
  19. 37. Board for mixing paint colors
  20. 39. Word formed by rearranging letters
  21. 40. Brightly colored streamside bird
Down
  1. 1. Tusked Arctic pinniped
  2. 2. Harsh mixture of sounds
  3. 3. Very large New World vulture
  4. 6. Calm and peaceful
  5. 8. Vague or ill-defined
  6. 10. Common bird known for murmurations
  7. 13. Large ocean bird with long wings
  8. 15. Using very few words
  9. 16. Concluding section of a book or play
  10. 17. Pleasing sound
  11. 20. Artwork in three panels
  12. 23. Forest giraffid with zebra stripes
  13. 24. Burrowing marsupial of Australia
  14. 25. Person who knows multiple languages
  15. 26. Bitter, abusive speech or writing
  16. 29. Mild word in place of harsh one
  17. 31. Wild goat with long curved horns
  18. 33. Fastest falcon species
  19. 38. Self-evident truth