Split Up (and across)

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Across
  1. 7. Goose pulling, for one
  2. 9. Serviceperson in film studio’s private military
  3. 12. Antonius Block didn’t see him coming
  4. 13. Hasbro strategy board game gets taken to the nth degree
  5. 14. England, to Kate Bush
  6. 15. Deliverer of many a low blow
  7. 17. Ultimate recruit for 8-down
Down
  1. 1. Like a head-on collision, or, using italics and underline at the same time.
  2. 2. Belgian martial artist and actor starring in all solutions in this crossword
  3. 3. Soong constructs a positronic brain, Haraway prefers a more plastic identity
  4. 4. One getting atypical pneumonia from an air conditioner
  5. 5. Clefable increased evasiveness by 1 level!
  6. 6. In which you might move down, down, forward, forward + punch
  7. 8. Erik Prince hides privates in a swamp
  8. 10. William Tell shoots at boulders
  9. 11. Watchman, in a sense
  10. 16. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it