Aoife's Birthday

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Across
  1. 3. An enclave of ablutions, where echoes of hygiene dance, a retreat of rituals in a watery trance.
  2. 6. Karl von Drais gave birth to my design,A mode of transport so benign.
  3. 7. Gathering light, both faint and old,Out to the depths, its secrets unfold
  4. 8. An upholstered cradle of leisure, where tales are spun and stillness finds its measure
Down
  1. 1. A hub of ambition, where strategies unfurl, and the clink of ideas echoes in this working world
  2. 2. In the backyard's secret vault, where tools find their hush, and the echo of storage whispers amid the brush
  3. 4. In the realm where angles reside,Above the floors where secrets hide,Angles acute, obtuse, they blend,A polygon's sum is what they send.
  4. 5. Before you enter, take a pause, A space to gather, for a noble cause.Not fully inside, yet not quite out,A transition zone, without a doubt.
  5. 6. Where dreams intertwine with slumber's embrace, a realm of rest amidst life's hectic pace