Puzzle 9

My Sister's __ by Jodi Picoult

Ascendant, climbing

__ interest, having special significance

Mykonos and Santorini are found in this country

The skin of this yellow fruit can cure verrucas

Term for an enfeebled old age

__ play; when three baseball runners score

Designer Coco ___

Asked for popular opinion by vote

Michael Jackson's older sister, also a singer

Country whose cuisine uses the cacti, nopales

Metal slug in a gun

Part of bread that is said to make hair curly