Secret puzzle!

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Across
  1. 2. dutifully complying with the commands of those in authority
  2. 3. Slow-witted and insensitive
  3. 7. a person who has revolutionary ideas or opinions.
  4. 8. _______: Wandering and homeless
  5. 9. make attractive or lovable
  6. 11. the month your children were born
  7. 13. to slow down and be prepared to stop
  8. 16. destroy completely, as if down to the roots
  9. 19. capital of South Dakota
  10. 21. of or relating to tailoring or clothing
  11. 22. instrument for viewing extremely small objects
  12. 23. the act of spotting, staining, or making something spotted.
  13. 24. sound of a bell ringing
Down
  1. 1. marked by quickness and agility; nimble; prepared; easily handled
  2. 3. set of eight things
  3. 4. flowing in opposite direction to original slope of land
  4. 5. Capital for Rhode Island
  5. 6. discouraging through fear
  6. 10. the type of environment in which an organism normally lives
  7. 12. he wood of trees prepared for use as building material
  8. 13. luxurious boat that was invented in the 14th century
  9. 14. Capital of Pennsylvania
  10. 15. withering without falling off
  11. 17. beg persistently and urgently
  12. 18. a short moral story.
  13. 20. Long lived