Nations, Regions, Cities

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Across
  1. 2. Persian capital
  2. 7. location of Japanese Eiffel Tower
  3. 9. Korean Heart and ____
  4. 10. Five-star communism
  5. 12. guitar on the flag
  6. 14. Rising Sun
  7. 18. The ball's goal
  8. 19. Westernmost Portuguese point
  9. 20. State the country
  10. 21. Queen's Rapsody
  11. 23. excluded from checks
  12. 26. like the candy
  13. 28. Star of American shame
  14. 30. Origin of Time
  15. 32. Second galf of name is apt desc. for eventual fate
  16. 34. Cuban missile counterpart
  17. 35. Western counterpart to Sauna land
  18. 36. lack of Soviet fidelity
  19. 38. Euro master of social distancing
  20. 40. Pristine Albanian
  21. 41. unlucky canine mountain location
  22. 42. Peruvian leaf
  23. 43. Boat city
  24. 46. Tenochitland's successor
  25. 47. Pakistani religous denouncement
  26. 48. Hungarian majority in Serbia
Down
  1. 1. The boot
  2. 3. Down under
  3. 4. European Vegas
  4. 5. known by many names
  5. 6. Last Soviet member
  6. 8. Worship house of Saud
  7. 11. Former Empire State
  8. 13. "War on Drugs" nation
  9. 15. West Virginia lookalike
  10. 16. Killed by turkeys
  11. 17. Has an American counterpart
  12. 18. Dane's ice land
  13. 22. Star pirates
  14. 24. Rich land kicked out
  15. 25. English city in France
  16. 27. Country and Continent
  17. 29. Kremlin city
  18. 31. Sunken continent down under
  19. 33. Mulan's enemy fled here
  20. 37. money is lost here
  21. 39. "Steamed Hams" expression
  22. 44. Soccer team can't come home
  23. 45. The boot's ball