Puzzle 7

Gin-based cocktail: __ Sling.

Shared home telephone communications of the 1960s.

Vertical pillar on a staircase.

__ Resistojet; Yvonne Brill's rocket engine.

__ Gang, group famous for Rappers Delight.

Medieval French town in the Dordogne region.

Developed a waterproof lantern with Andrea Sreshta.

People and businesses with a common enterprise.

Insular, small-town mentality.

__ Park, Austen's tale of Fanny Price.

Promise in a church as part of marriage ceremony.

Aubrey __, illustrated Wilde's Salome.

Personal stupor resulting in a trance-like state.

__ tree, nature struck by a thunderbolt.