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Other crossword clues for answer "CITIES"

CITIES
With 38A, theme of this puzzle
Surprise and Independence, e.g.
Tour t-shirt listings
A lot of people live here
Ports, for example
Most of them have their own halls
Tampa and Tempe, et al.
End word in a Dickens title
Vatican and Panama
Eugene and Gary
St. Louis and St. Paul
Urban areas
Metropolitan areas
Two in a Dickens title
Boston and Chicago
St. Louis and St. Petersburg, for two
New York and Boston
Boston and Buffalo
Pierre and Eugene
Sites with skylines
Dickens title pair
Dots on a globe
Big dots on a state map
A Tale of Two ___.
St. Paul and Minneapolis.
St. Paul and St. Louis.
Dickens wrote about two.
Where most Americans live
Thine alabaster ___ gleam: Bates
Municipalities
Chevy Chase and others
They have their limits
Washington and Lincoln
Talking Heads song about urban areas?
___, like dreams, are made of desires and fears: Italo Calvino
Dots on a map
Madison and Jackson, e.g.
Freetown and Libreville, for two
Washington and Lincoln, e.g.
Minneapolis and Saint Paul
Atlas dots
End of a Dickens title
London, Baltimore and Paris
Charlotte and Charlottesville
Detroit and Buffalo, e.g.
Gary, Norman and Eugene
Population centers
Mayors' domains