ROUND 1 CROSSWORD [1.1]

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Across
  1. 2. Metal long known for jts ability to diagnose economic conditions
  2. 4. Critical mineral processed entirely by China
  3. 6. A point of congestion in a system limiting overall capacity
  4. 9. Digital form of money using cryptography
  5. 11. system in middle east that binds migrants to a single employer
  6. 12. New idol for business hiring migrants whose country signed a labour mobility deal with India
  7. 15. Significant and prolonged downturn in economic activity
  8. 16. An official tax or duty imposed by a national government
  9. 17. Large scale exchange of goods and services between buyers and sellers
  10. 18. An intermediary agent who connects buyers and sellers
  11. 19. A syndrome representing the projected shares between Ai Labs and Software vendors using llms
  12. 20. Country protected by a 'silicon shield'
Down
  1. 1. Most popular museum anywhere from where nine items were stolen in seven minutes
  2. 3. An exchange of goods and services between buyers and sellers
  3. 5. Combined collection of financial assets, stocks, bonds and cash
  4. 7. Special privilege granted by an Authority
  5. 8. A name for land grabbers after the practice of putting insects in a box with fraudulent land deeds to age papers and legitimize claims over territory
  6. 10. America's chokepoint identified by China
  7. 13. Mapmakers manipulating district lines resulting in comical shapes of districts
  8. 14. Financial agreement where a lender gives resources, goods or services to a buyer for a future promise of repayment