What weather!!

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Across
  1. 2. You can cook vegetables like this (8)
  2. 4. Dry as the desert (7)
  3. 5. Not with an iron (9)
  4. 6. Like a kettle (7)
  5. 8. Gin lifts (anagram 8)
  6. 9. Warm, humid and uncomfortable (5)
Down
  1. 1. Gas rein (anagram 7)
  2. 3. Noisy, with lightning and rain (13)
  3. 5. Oppressively hot (10)
  4. 7. Make a cake (6)