Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The state of being of noble birth
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- A fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries
- 6 Across
- People without possessions or wealth
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- English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice
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- Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
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- Instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles
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- A country person (plural)
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- French revolutionary
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- Sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae (plural)
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- An autocracy governed by a ___ who usually inherits the authority
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- A businessperson engaged in retail trade (plural)
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- In Christianity, ___ collectively
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- Charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government (plural)
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