You can find the answers at the end of this post.
1. A test of skill or ability:
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2. Guidance, management or control:
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3. Mend; fix:
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4. Grown old:
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5. Hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel:
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6. To fail to ignite properly:
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7. Native to a particular region:
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8. The money gained or received in a given period:
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9. The control of physical desires and bodily passions and appetites by self-denial, abstinence, fasting, etc.:
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10. Merry:
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11. Discriminate; to mark a difference:
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12. Awarded a prize; paid; compensated:
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13. The front or face of a building:
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14. Disjoined; freestanding:
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15. Settle:
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16. An unforeseen event or circumstance:
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17. To use up; expend:
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18. Beat; thump:
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19. Beforehand:
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20. Accurately:
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Reference:
Word Sum Puzzles [Kindle Edition] G.R. Worder (Author)
Answer:
1. competition
2. direction
3. repair
4. aged
5. nut
6. misfire
7. endemic
8. income
9. mortification
10. jocund
11. differentiate
12. rewarded
13. facade
14. separate
15. locate
16. accident
17. spend
18. flap
19. previously
20. exactly