| Land of the tsars |
RUSSIA |
| Light-absorbing skin pigment |
MELANIN |
| Long raised strip |
RIDGE |
| Make sharp hard sounds in quick succession |
RATTLE |
| Permits |
ALLOWS |
| Relating to the lower part of the back |
LUMBAR |
| Say what something is like |
DESCRIBE |
| Shields from danger |
PROTECTS |
| Smartest or most upper-crust |
POSHEST |
| Song of loyalty |
ANTHEM |
| Structures surrounding and supporting |
FRAMES |
| Subdivision of a text |
PARAGRAPH |
| System of signalling with the arms |
SEMAPHORE |
| They're smaller than towns |
VILLAGES |
| Thin fog |
MISTS |
| Try to find something |
SEARCH |
| Turn on an axis |
ROTATE |
| Wife of Heracles and a perennial shrub |
HEBE |