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Across
  1. 2. :protuberanceswelling
  2. 6. American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre
  3. 8. any of several large carnivorous thick-skinned long-bodied aquatic reptiles (family Crocodylidae) of tropical and subtropical waters
  4. 9. the first month of the Gregorian calendar
  5. 10. to catch the breath convulsively and audibly (as with shock)
  6. 13. an elaborate and usually abundant meal often accompanied by a ceremony or entertainment :banquet
  7. 15. lavish
  8. 16. :a seat usually without back or arms supported by three or four legs or by a central pedestal
  9. 17. :a black or dark viscous substance obtained as a residue in the distillation of organic materials and especially tars
  10. 18. :the light from the sky between full night and sunrise or between sunset and full night produced by diffusion of sunlight through the atmosphere and its dust
  11. 20. :an injurious, unfair, or unjust act :action or conduct inflicting harm without due provocation or just cause
  12. 21. evening
Down
  1. 1. :a hand tool consisting of a solid head set crosswise on a handle and used for pounding
  2. 3. :a collapsible shade for protection against weather consisting of fabric stretched over hinged ribs radiating from a central pole
  3. 4. a hollow muscular organ of vertebrate animals that by its rhythmic contraction acts as a force pump maintaining the circulation of the blood
  4. 5. :to do the first part of an action :go into the first part of a process :start
  5. 7. a crystalline compound NaCl that consists of sodium chloride, is abundant in nature, and is used especially to season or preserve food or in industry called also common salt
  6. 11. one employed to steer a ship :helmsman
  7. 12. :a quantity of food:
  8. 14. :pleasing to the taste
  9. 19. :a cause of astonishment or admiration :marvelit's a wonder you weren't killedthe pyramid is a wonder to behold