Off the beaten track

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Across
  1. 2. Uncommonly large
  2. 3. A sum of money payable as a first instalment on the purchase of something, the balance being payable later
  3. 5. This is ... under the bridge (=something from the past that isn't important anymore)
  4. 6. The study of ... (=vexillology)
  5. 8. This word means "having two eyes", it is a handheld optical instrument composed of two telescopes and a focusing device and usually having prisms to increase magnifying ability
  6. 10. Into the ... (=a famous travel-related movie about a student who hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness)
  7. 12. To create a record of an amount of money that is owed
  8. 15. A book that alphabetically lists local phone numbers of people and businesses
  9. 17. A basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge, to be found in remote, mountainous areas (mostly Scotland)
Down
  1. 1. ... that bridge when you come to it (=deal with a problem if and when it becomes necessary)
  2. 4. This word is very important in British polite requests and questions and much more frequently used than in Dutch
  3. 5. A person living in Wales
  4. 7. To ... bridges (=to destroy relationships)
  5. 8. One of two single beds usually placed one above the other
  6. 9. Yours ... (=complementary close of an email or letter when you know the name of your correspondent)
  7. 11. To press the buttons on the phone
  8. 13. A ... room is a room with two separate beds
  9. 14. A person who owns a business or property
  10. 16. An often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic