Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- To get ready for war
- 5 Across
- Compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors
- 6 Across
- The state of being allied or confederated (plural)
- 7 Across
- Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
- 8 Across
- An American infantryman in World War I
- 9 Across
- Ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula
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- A city in north central France near Paris
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- Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause
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- A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
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