Puzzle 1

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Across
  1. 2. nimble-witted
  2. 5. premature burial
  3. 7. investor who is sold shares by private placement
  4. 9. divination using rings
  5. 10. doctrine that objects of cognition are real
  6. 11. preventing nightmares
  7. 12. like light
  8. 14. grit from an axle; stone or metal filings
  9. 15. male sexual partner
  10. 16. means of ending legislative debate
  11. 17. mouldy; musty
Down
  1. 1. anything with poisonous juices
  2. 2. in heraldry, the colour green
  3. 3. painted thickly
  4. 4. of, like or pertaining to fluid-carrying vessels
  5. 6. theory that self-existence is the only certainty
  6. 8. shaped like a scalpel
  7. 9. aquatic herbivorous mammal like the manatee
  8. 10. study of the nose
  9. 13. getting up on the wrong side of the bed