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Across
| 3 | | A framework of rigid design used
as a means of supporting usually
either a roof or a bridge (5) |
| 6 | | The Sun God (2) |
| 8 | | Partisans who believe that Ali
should have succeeded to the
caliphate and some of his
descendants should have inherited
that right (4) |
| 10 | | A conventional and generic manner
of describing the head of a local
priesthood (2 wds.) (10) |
| 11 | | The Muslim call to prayer (4) |
| 12 | | The Sun Disk and later God (4) |
| 13 | | The All-Father (4) |
| 15 | | God of the Sea (4) |
| 17 | | Guardian of the Borders (5) |
| 19 | | A tower, usually within a
fortified structure (4) |
| 20 | | Kindly God of the Desert (2) |
| 21 | | A symbol of protection, consisting
of an image of a herdsman’s roll
of papyrus which he used as shelter (2) |
| 23 | | From pagan religion, the spirit
that inhabits the body during one's life (2) |
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Down
| 1 | | God of air and sunlight (3) |
| 2 | | Protector of Childbirth (3) |
| 3 | | Sign in the script that is placed
after the phonograms and indicates
the class or area of meaning to
which it belongs (8) |
| 4 | | Associated with the Goddess
Hathor, a sacred rattle device
used in her rituals (7) |
| 5 | | The part of a cruciform style
church which crosses at right
angles to the nave (8) |
| 7 | | The interior courtyard of a Mosque (4) |
| 9 | | Grandmother of the Gods (3) |
| 12 | | A semi-circular domed recess, most
frequently at the east end of a
church (4) |
| 14 | | A symbol of kingship in Egypt
represented by a cobra in an
upright position worn as a head
ornament or crown (6) |
| 16 | | Tutankhamun's successor (2) |
| 18 | | The alternating use of red and
white or black and white stone in
Arab architecture (5) |
| 19 | | A spirit that inhabits the body
during life and may leave it in
death, but requires the continued
existence of the body for its
survival (2) |
| 22 | | An Arabic word for a holy man or
saint from any religion (3) |
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