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Across
  1. 1. A serving cart for displaying pastry desserts to restaurant patrons
  2. 3. The area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century
  3. 6. Large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
  4. 8. A skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part
  5. 9. Skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood
Down
  1. 2. Free from confusion or doubt
  2. 4. An ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government.
  3. 5. The study of myths
  4. 7. aninitial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)