My own crossword puzzle by melody m

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Across
  1. 3. To warn or reprimand someone
  2. 4. To exclude by intention or by forgetting
  3. 6. Having no alive members or no longer existing
  4. 8. An animal that naturally prays on others
  5. 10. A person typically one more remote than a grand parent from whom one is descended from
  6. 12. Looking or feeling dejected
  7. 13. Extremely comfortable
  8. 15. Treating all rivals equally fair.
  9. 17. To cause or begin
  10. 21. Having the ability, fitness or quality necessary to do or achieve.
  11. 23. A whitish flexible tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract.
Down
  1. 1. Something sad or unlucky
  2. 2. One's family or relations
  3. 3. A positive declaration intended to give confidence
  4. 5. To allow existence/occurrence
  5. 7. For a limited time
  6. 8. Simulate or give rise to reaction in someone
  7. 9. A writing from a text or speech
  8. 11. Very harmful or unpleasant
  9. 14. Having the right to do or obtain something
  10. 16. To spoil or comport
  11. 18. The action of betraying someone or something
  12. 19. Having or denoting a jagged edge; saw
  13. 20. Have as one's purpose or objective/plain
  14. 22. A interest in one exact area or subject