Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
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- A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
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- A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription (plural)
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- The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes
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- A region marked off for administrative or other purposes (plural)
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- An architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness
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- An Asian river
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- Soft plant fibers harvested and used to make cloth.
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- A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet (plural)
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- French playwright (plural)
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- A ___ in central China
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- The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC
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- A structure taller than its diameter
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- United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who
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