Tour Egypt

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Across 1 A symbol of protection, consisting of an image of a herdsmans roll of papyrus which he used as shelter (2) 2 The Great Destroyer (4) 5 Another Moon God (3) 7 An ancient symbol of two circles coming together, overlapping one another to form an almond shape in the middle (8) 10 Lady of Truth and Order (4) 12 Tutankhamun's successor (2) 15 A collection of spells originally written on papyrus and buried with a mummy (4 wds.) (13) 18 An Arabic word for a holy man or saint from any religion (3) 19 Amun animal (3) 21 The Sun God (2) 22 southern land (5) 23 A flail or rattle to drive away evil spirits (9) 25 Ancient Cow Goddess (3) 27 Kindly God of the Desert (2) 28 In Egypt specifically the word is used to refer to an ancient tempera painting (6) 31 The Embracer, Goddess of Fertility and the Nile at Aswan (5) 33 The Border Patrol God (6) 35 An Islamic title (5) 36 Common housing such as an apartment house (3)

Down 1 Festival usually celebrated after 30 years of a kings rule (3) 3 Huge ancient tombs (7) 4 The shape of a cross (9) 6 God of the Spoken Word (2) 7 God of Fertility (3) 8 Literally, a city of the dead (10) 9 Devourer of Millions (5) 11 A nationalistic party of Egypt which was led by Saad Zaghlul (4) 13 A main reception hall in an Egyptian house in which the central section is set off with a high roof (3) 14 God of Thunder (4) 15 Tower (4) 16 The Nine Great Osirian Gods (6) 17 An administrative title in the early Islamic period (4) 20 Grandmother of the Gods (3) 24 An aspect of the sun god Ra (3) 25 A house, or the self contained apartments into which Ummayed mansions and Abbasid palaces were divided (4) 26 The Bird of Creation (4) 29 The Sun God (2) 30 The latest form of the Egyptian language but written with mostly Greek letters (6) 31 Goddess of War (5) 32 A palace, fortress or mansion (4) 33 God of air and sunlight (3) 34 Sufi litany or prayer service (5)

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