Star spellers

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Across
  1. 2. TROD or PACED
  2. 3. HALT or END
  3. 6. yelled, screamed, or roared
  4. 8. STAYED or LINGERED
  5. 9. "appeared,
Down
  1. 1. played, as in a role
  2. 4. refer to the past,
  3. 5. snatched, seized, caught, grasped, or clutched
  4. 7. indicates that a variable,