Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- A major African ___
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- A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea
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- An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea
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- Beautiful handwriting
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- A sale of miscellany
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- A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal
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- The ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma
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- A mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery
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- A republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands
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- A group of many islands in a large body of water
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- An antiquity that has survived from the distant past
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- An Asian peninsula separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan
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- A region in northeastern China
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- A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea
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- A fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC
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- Island country in Asia with Tokyo as its capital
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