Ayrah's Challenge of crosswords

2. recollection, memory
7. to fix or ask as fee or payment
8. exceeding most other things of like kind especially in quantity or size
10. rate of movement
13. to make a light clinking or tinkling sound
14. a machine for converting any of various forms of energy into mechanical force and motion"
15. any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry"
17. free from harshness, sternness, or violence
18. to have a fancy (see fancyentry 2 sense 1) for

1. to make a smudge on
3. a spiritual being serving as a divine messenger and intermediary and often as a special protector of an individual or nation"
4. a food made by boiling fruit and sugar to a thick consistency
5. very large or extensive
6. to walk or march steadily and usually laboriously
7. the point around which a circle or sphere is described
9. an impenetrable thicket or tangled mass of tropical vegetation
11. to make different in some particular
12. dynamic quality , power
13. a precious stone
16. to come upon often accidentally