Daily Three LA

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Across
  1. 1. cause, account, interest or benefit
  2. 4. try earnestly and persistently to persuade (someone) to do something
  3. 5. a short sword used in ancient Rome by legionaries
  4. 7. a visible incorporeal spirit; especially one of a terrifying nature;ghost;phantom
  5. 8. composed of earth
  6. 9. of or having one color
  7. 11. a long and distinct period of history with particular feature or characteristic
  8. 12. gloomily; dark; dull
Down
  1. 1. a bright red inclining toward orange
  2. 2. careful in providing for the future; provident
  3. 3. changed direction suddenly
  4. 6. break or cause to break into small sharp fragments
  5. 7. the brutal or violent killing of a person
  6. 10. a cave, especially one that is large and underground