Geography Generator Puzzle #21

Rearrange the letters in the grid on the left to make a 9-letter [former] world capital city.
In addition to this - drawing only from these 9 letters - solve each geographical answer from the clues given.
Each grid letter may be used only once within an individual answer
Quiz by kiwirage
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Last updated: December 7, 2022
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First submittedAugust 3, 2019
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9-Letter Capital
NUR-SULTAN
Hint
Answer
Earth's closest star
Sun
Can. or Mex. neighbor
USA
Oceanic country
Nauru
Eurasian mountains
Urals
"Hi!" in France
Salut
Small mountain lake
Tarn
Of the moon
Lunar
Seaport north of Mumbai
Surat
Planets
Uranus
Saturn
Russian ruler
Tsar
Arabian ruler
Sultan
___ Lake City, Utah
Salt
_____ Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault
US-Midwest industrial "belt"
Rust
Hawaiian feast or party
Luau
Hollywood Blvd. sidewalk feature
Star
Prefix with Atlantic or Continental
Trans
Buddhist, Hindu or Jainist scripture
Sutra
Oklahoma oil city
Tulsa
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Level 37
Aug 3, 2019
Salt Lake City is in Utah.
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Level 62
Aug 3, 2019
Indeed. I need more coffee.
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Level 65
Aug 3, 2019
Nice! Can you accept just Ural?
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Level 62
Aug 3, 2019
Yes
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Level 76
Aug 3, 2019
This is the first time I got the nine-letter answer before anything else. The chatter on Jetpunk about the capital's name change, in the four months it took for that new name to be updated into this website, means that everyone knows Kazakhstan's capital now!
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Level 45
Aug 4, 2019
Great quiz!
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Level 67
Aug 4, 2019
I really overthought that question about the closest star.
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Level 83
Dec 7, 2022
Perhaps better to put “prefix for” rather than “prefix with” as I read that to mean a word which could be prefixed with/by Atlantic or continental, eg something meteorological or geology-related.

Nur-sultan was renamed Astana (again) in September 2022.