Crossword Clues "V"
Peaks and ____ (7)
What are valleys?
Plasma makes up the majority of this life-important bodily fluid
What is blood?
This Cabinet position is analogous to a foreign minister in other countries.
What is Secretary of State?
This current pope is the first one born in the Americas and from the Southern Hemisphere.
Who is Pope Francis?
This river is often classified as the longest in the world and runs north since it is south of the equator.
What is the Nile?
To bother (3)
What is vex?
This hollow organ stores waste from the kidneys and easily become infected in women due to a short urethra.
What is the bladder?
This statutory member of the Cabinet is the chief lawyer of the federal government.
What is Attorney General?
Pope Boniface VIII was famously depicted in hell before his death in this epic poem of the 14th Century.
What is Dante’s Inferno?
This river is the largest in the world in terms of discharge of water.
What is the Amazon?
A type of snake or a car made by Dodge (5)
What is a viper?
A passage or airway that brings air into the lungs
What is a bronchus?
This Cabinet position was created after the September 11th attacks.
What is Secretary of Homeland Security?
This pope had the shortest reign in papal history of only 33 days.
Who is John Paul I?
These two rivers were the defining rivers of Mesopotamia and were of great importance to prehistoric human civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
A swollen or twisted vein (8)
What is varicose?
This dark green or yellow-brown liquid is produced by the liver and aids in digestion in the small intestine.
What is bile?
This position is responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources and leading such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management.
What is Secretary of the Interior?
The largest number of popes at 23 have come from this monastic religious order.
What is Benedictine?
This major European river flows from Geneva to the Mediterranean Sea and is known for a particular wine varietal.
What is the Rhône?
The Roman goddess of truth (7)
Who is Veritas?
This group of subcortical nuclei in the human brain is thought to control eye movement as well as decision making.
What are basal ganglia?
There are currently this many Cabinet positions.
What is 23?
Two popes who shared this name of a former Roman emperor were reported to have had homosexual affairs during their reign as pope.
What is Julius?
This is the longest river to flow entirely in one country.
What is the Yangtze?