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Across 1. Free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world. 3. a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an mperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire 4. A monarchy in which the powers of the ruler are restricted to those granted under theconstitution and laws of the nation. 8. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them 10. relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property 11. king; sovereign. 12. The former emperor of Russia. 14. An organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression. 15. A peninsula forming the S part of Greece 17. a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel. 21. King of Macedonia 336 - 323: 23. an adherent of Islam. 25. Also called Sunnite. a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam, regarding the first four caliphs as legitimate successors of Muhammad and stressing the importance of Sunna as a basis for law. 26. An organization formed in Warsaw, (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, and the U..S.S.R., 27. a form of government in which God or a deity 30. the body of Jews living in countries outside Palestine or modern Israel. 31. an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices. 32. A provincial, rural, or socially distinct variety of a language that differs from the standard language, esp. when considered as substandard.

Down 2. a former Turkish empire that was founded about 1300 by Osman and reached its greatest territorial extent under Suleiman in the 16th century; collapsed after World War I. Capital: Constantinople. 3. IThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) is formally known as the 'Court of Justice of the European Communities', i.e. the court 4. intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict; sustained hostile political policies and an atmosphere of strain between opposed countries. 5. a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law ofMuhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad, and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him. 6. A composite picture made of overlapping, 7. The principal land of a country, region, 9. Loch is the Irish, Irish English, Scots Gaelic and Scottish English name for bodies of water which are either:* a lake or;* a sea loch, which may be perceived also as a firth, fjord, estuary, bay or sea. inlet. 13. The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. 16. A powerful and influential nation, especially a nuclear power that dominates its allies or client states in an international power bloc. 18. of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual or sacred; temporal 19. to renounce or relinquish a throne. right, power, claim, responsibilty, or the like. 20. a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration. 22. the land and waters belonging to or under the jurisdiction of a state, sovereign, etc. 23. A broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained, with patches of heath and peat bogs. 24. The vast grasslands, esp. those in the S and E European and W and SW Asian parts of Russia. 28. A long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion. 29. A mountain range in S Europe, extending from rance through Switzerland and Italy into Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia. Highest peak, Mont Blanc,