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