Special things

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Across
  1. 2. Hit by shark's! Pray, I hear everything after wick and coal, but not stuff for burning.
  2. 4. stirs up a stream with the French
  3. 6. one who pays to be conveyed aloud with heart to quicken heartbeats
  4. 8. Welsh holiday, special coat behind lost twit. Dance solo.
  5. 10. aeroplane twister
  6. 12. Storm still ruins a strong portico and tells of another storm
  7. 14. Group fronted by cops ultimately. Practice...
  8. 15. Ware used to split; fuel with the muddled or petty!
  9. 16. Top station times, before the system and argument
  10. 17. The ceiling cracked with Lawrence's mixer
Down
  1. 1. Smash! Clash! Neckties on the instrument! Confounding Yankees!
  2. 3. Ruthenia, as we say, put up with good weave: first choice! For the chair...
  3. 5. Snug going up a pole, we listen to find our way.
  4. 7. The best way to cross; say maybe greens or builders, and the heads of Tories. Rebel any new nonsense, yeah!
  5. 9. Fancy band girl runs ahead of Shanghai attraction
  6. 11. December time, good! One cooks scarce, tricks harm
  7. 13. Get a man who wanders, it's the best to see an open road ahead.