frail, fract, frag = break; shatter

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Across
  1. 2. being easily broken or destroyed
  2. 3. a break in a part of the body
  3. 6. to break into an issue; to vote
  4. 7. an incomplete sentence; a break in a sentence
  5. 9. a broken rule
Down
  1. 1. so delicate that it could break easily; easily damaged
  2. 3. describes something that is broken into pieces
  3. 4. to bend light so it looks like it is broken
  4. 5. the type of geometry that creates broken patterns out of a smaller version of a design
  5. 8. a part of a whole; a broken piece of something that is no longer whole