Verbs

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Across
  1. 2. intercept and hold (something which has been thrown, propelled, or dropped).
  2. 4. decide on a course of action, typically after rejecting alternatives.
  3. 5. strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently.
  4. 6. (of a person) incline the body downward from the vertical.
  5. 8. divide into pieces with a knife or other sharp implement.
Down
  1. 1. begin to be.
  2. 2. (of an object or action) require the payment of (a specified sum of money) before it can be acquired or done.
  3. 3. move or travel toward or into a place thought of as near or familiar to the speaker.
  4. 5. risk something, usually a sum of money, against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of a future event, such as the result of a race or game.
  5. 7. begin to be.