When You Reach me, list #2

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Across
  1. 4. gloomy and drab.
  2. 9. sparing in the use of words; abrupt.
  3. 10. not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one.
  4. 12. a very confident and typically arrogant or aggressive gait or manner.
  5. 13. thrust or spread (things, especially limbs or fingers) out and apart.
  6. 16. an ornamental tablet fixed to a wall in commemoration of an event.
  7. 17. a neurological disorder marked by sudden convulsions.
Spunky courageous and determined.
Down
  1. 1. a feeling of ill will or resentment resulting from a past insult or injury.
Shorthand a method of rapid writing by means of abbreviations and symbols,
  2. 2. leather with the flesh side rubbed to make a velvety nap.
  3. 3. utterly confuse or perplex (someone).
  4. 5. material stretched on a frame and used to keep the sun or rain off
  5. 6. a plane figure with six straight sides and angles.
  6. 7. equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.
  7. 8. move or cause to move rapidly around and around.
  8. 10. the Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures.
  9. 11. turn around a point or axis
  10. 14. a request made in an urgent and emotional manner
  11. 15. an additional statement or action that provides further information