"The Era" Build-Up

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Across
  1. 3. Based upon good looks, intelligence, wit, or physique.
  2. 6. A contrast or opposition between two things.
  3. 7. The "clear-born" narrator.
  4. 11. The exaggeration where a real-world issue gets heightened and taken to a terrifying extreme.
  5. 12. This is one reason why the current wars are better.
Down
  1. 1. Second-class citizens whose genes were not pre-determined.
  2. 2. This family is the antithesis of their society.
  3. 3. A trait one doesn't want to show.
  4. 4. The alternate name for history class.
  5. 5. Outcast individuals who are ridiculed for showing emotion, lacking optimization, and not fitting into the "ideal" mold.
  6. 8. A mood-enhancing drug that serves as a coping mechanism.
  7. 9. People whose genes were selected specifically.
  8. 10. The sister whose personality traits all went into the ambition category (suboptimal).