Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Armed fighting between countries
- 5 Across
- Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government (plural)
- 6 Across
- Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
- 7 Across
- To hold back, as of a danger or an enemy
- 8 Across
- The act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
- 10 Across
- A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
- 12 Across
- A legislative assembly in certain countries
- 13 Across
- Any hostile group of people (plural)
- 14 Across
- A member of a ___ church
- 15 Across
- To cut the head of
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- A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
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- An expert who gives advice
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- The state of inactivity following an interruption
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- A crime that undermines the offender's government
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- Government in which people vote for their leaders
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- The study of government of states and other ___ units
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