WORLD WAR I

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Across
  1. 3. Italian La Mano Nera. any of various secret criminal groups organized in Italy and operating in the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, practicing blackmail and violence.
  2. 5. the powers of the Triple Entente (Great Britain, France, Russia), with the nations allied with them (Belgium, Serbia, Japan, Italy, etc., not including the United States), or, loosely, with all the nations (including the United States) allied or associated with them as opposed to the Central Powers.
  3. 6. compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft.
  4. 8. something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  5. 11. was fought during the First World War from 1 July to 18 November 1916. In the summer of 1916
  6. 13. the giving or delegation of power or authority; authorization
Down
  1. 1. the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people.
  2. 2. was a series of engagements during the First World War, near the Belgian city of Ypres
  3. 4. ts capture by the Canadians was essential to the advances by the British Third Army to the south and of exceptional importance to checking the German attacks in the area in 1918.
  4. 5. appointment for a meeting, especially a lover's secret rendezvous.
  5. 6. a salt of hydrocyanic acid, as potassium cyanide, KCN.
  6. 7. mounted projectile-firing guns or missile launchers, mobile or stationary, light or heavy, as distinguished from small arms.
  7. 9. a long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
  8. 10. spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation:
  9. 12. a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire.