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Across 4. The pearly internal layer of certain mollusk shells, used to make decorative objects 5. A stage musical with a book by British playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA 8. The head of a Christian religious community for women. 9. A well-known figure in the literature of fairy tales and nursery rhymes

Down 1. A title or position reserved for a widowed queen consort whose son or daughter from that marriage is the reigning monarch 2. Nursery Rhyme Character with a bare cupboard 3. A common anthropomorphized representation of nature 4. Childhood Game that has the competitors asking for permission. 6. Famous for humbly ministering to lepers, the homeless and the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta 7. A term that may refer to a mother country, i.e. the place of one's birth, or the place of origin of an ethnic group or immigrant