The short e sound

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Across
  1. 2. in, after (grammar)
  2. 4. a desirable model
  3. 5. disease across a community
  4. 8. to abhor or denounce
Down
  1. 1. round a cricle
  2. 3. bleak and empty place
  3. 5. learning, enlightenment
  4. 6. divide
  5. 7. a symbol not literally applicable
  6. 8. spread across