_Who Am I?

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Across
  1. 4. My parting words were an insult, and an order to do the impossible. But they weren't actually parting words, because I came back.
  2. 6. I am a thing that Scrooge would have said "Bah!" along with... but a bit more regular... and aged.
  3. 7. I didn't die, I faked my death. Even my dear friend was fooled.
  4. 9. I got saved, met a new friend, got sick, died- and was an angel the whole way through
  5. 10. I can help creatures to their feet from miles and miles away
  6. 11. I was done the great honour of being pounced on by the great lion. Then I found my interest in trumpets.
  7. 13. The one who taught us a phrase to help us keep going in cross country
  8. 15. I love noise.
  9. 16. I adopted a weird laugh since being kidnapped by a woman with similar habits
Down
  1. 1. I lived on a planet where COVID-19 was not around, yet I kept up my safety measures.
  2. 2. I used to swear by something I didn't believe in
  3. 3. he's a very particular organism, which means he holds on
  4. 5. Call me that and I don't care how long ago that event was...
  5. 8. I like surfing, but not on water. Not on a surfboard, but on a piece of wood. Not in an ocean, but in a war.
  6. 12. I was the one that started the comings and goings by breaking a promise to a dying woman, yet I can only hear growling
  7. 14. I think that everyone around me is named "Fool."