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Across
  1. 1. Police force heading west, and east, take great risks
  2. 5. Cellphone info collected by the NSA, per the Snowden documents
  3. 6. PALACE Nickname for the National Security Agency
  4. 8. Security office array
  5. 11. Bear from Orient taken out of Lake Ontario (5)
  6. 13. Stud poker poets play out with the Northern Iraqi (4)
  7. 14. Refugees from the East taken by 50 states (7)
  8. 16. Old Northern Iraqi in Middle East taken in backing National Security Agency (8)
  9. 17. Commander in NSA outfit taking time off in Asian city (8)
  10. 18. Rifles National Security Agency kept in shelves (8)
  11. 20. National security concern
Down
  1. 2. Swindler from East taken in by gossip (5)
  2. 3. The headquarters of the US National Security Agency is located in Maryland's Fort ...
  3. 4. Security agency trainee holds up no mere ritual act (10)
  4. 7. NSA invasions
  5. 9. Assault prompting inapt reaction in old northern street
  6. 10. The FSB is this country's main security agency (6)
  7. 12. Arizona, then some old Northern Isles, leaving North Dakota to climb height in Italy
  8. 15. National Security Agency
  9. 19. Security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954-91 (3)