the UK

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Across
  1. 1. to prevent (someone or something) from experiencing or being affected by something unpleasant, harmful, etc.
  2. 5. a way of dealing with something : a way of doing or thinking about something
  3. 6. to serve as the inciting cause of something
  4. 9. the way you think about or understand someone or something
  5. 11. freedom from external control
  6. 13. to increase the force, power, or amount of something
  7. 15. to reexamine or reevaluate especially with a view to change
  8. 16. to succeed in doing or providing
  9. 18. a period of time when an economy is doing poorly
  10. 19. to turn over at length in the mind
  11. 20. to destroy something (in an orderly way)
  12. 22. something that causes people to worry
  13. 25. of first rank or position
  14. 26. to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception
  15. 28. the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity
  16. 29. an amount of money that you owe to a person, bank, company, etc.
Down
  1. 1. to experience something unpleasant (such as defeat, loss, or damage)
  2. 2. to control or direct
  3. 3. exhausted, being decreased seriously
  4. 4. to follow and try to catch or capture (someone or something) for usually a long distance or time
  5. 7. prosperous
  6. 8. moving away from a center
  7. 10. an act of ending your involvement in something
  8. 12. the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or prosperity
  9. 14. to take hold of smth especially with the intention of stopping
  10. 17. something that people are talking about, thinking about; an important subject or topic
  11. 21. to move with difficulty or with great effort
  12. 23. to have authority and control over
  13. 24. to make an effort to do, accomplish, solve
  14. 27. to make soft or softer