The snake and the mirror

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Across
  1. 2. Death lurked -------------- inches away.
  2. 4. The doctor was a ---------------
  3. 7. The snake that landed on the doctor was a ------------.
  4. 8. The doctor possessed one solitary ---------- coat.
  5. 9. The doctor’s wife was a thin reedy person with the gift of a ----------
  6. 10. How much money did the doctor have in his suitcase?
Down
  1. 1. When the snake slithered down from his lap, the doctor was no longer a mere image cut out in -------
  2. 3. The doctor took out a book named
  3. 5. The doctor said that the fellow had a sense of -------------.
  4. 6. The doctor was a ------------------