Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Continent that includes France and Italy
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- The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
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- A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone
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- A port and largest city in Louisiana
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- A creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously
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- A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity
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- A journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
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- Style of music with improvisation, born in New Orleans
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- A state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
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- Largest city in Illinois
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- A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone
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- A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion (plural)
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- A biography of yourself
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- The largest city in ___ ___ State and in the United States
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- United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader
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- Producing musical sounds with the voice.
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