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Across
  1. 2. Portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious
  2. 6. A period in which strength, importance, etc, are waning
  3. 8. A bank, mound, dike, or the like, raised to hold back water, carry a roadway, etc.
  4. 9. To place in a tomb
  5. 12. Unavailing; futile
  6. 13. Dangerous; hazardous
  7. 16. Of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect
  8. 17. To go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down
Down
  1. 1. To be stifled or suffocates
  2. 3. Without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic
  3. 4. to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely
  4. 5. To climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty
  5. 7. Inconceivable; unimaginable
  6. 10. Discontinuance of use or practice
  7. 11. Done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably
  8. 14. To drain of strength or energy, wear out, or fatigue greatly
  9. 15. Any misfortune, mishap, or failure; fiasco