Puzzle 17

Commonly it is grayish but it also makes rubies

Ms DuBois always depended on the __ of strangers

Sweet-sounding horror film – don't say his name x5

Colorful venue of the Nobel awards in Stockholm

Anton __, Austrian composer of Mass in D minor

English Pre-Raphaelite painter with Italian name

The formal, legal part of a wedding

Covering a hole with sewn cloth

Greyhound with a salty glass rim

Splitting of rocks along natural crystal planes

Surname of Carrie in Sex and the City

Himalayan river aka Karnali River

Reverse stroke

Small flashes of light

Rhodesian PM who declared independence in 1965