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Across
  1. 2. -capable of being deducted
  2. 4. -the domain controlled by the duke or
  3. 6. relating to a line of hereditary rulers of a country
  4. 8. -forcibility taking someone away against their will
  5. 11. to be in contradiction with
  6. 15. -a positive motivational influence
  7. 16. calm and even tempered
  8. 17. a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced
  9. 18. inflammation of the large intestine
Down
  1. 1. the act of praying for divine protection
  2. 3. the state of being equal in especially in status rights and opportunities
  3. 5. difficulty in swallowing
  4. 6. a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
  5. 7. the branch of mechanics concerned with the motion of bodies under the action of forces
  6. 9. speech difficulty resulting from brain damage
  7. 10. high explosive
  8. 12. impairment of the ability to read
  9. 13. The quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress
  10. 14. -when you say what is going to happen in the future
  11. 16. make the same in quantity,size or degree throughout the group