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Across
  1. 2. Easter Rising's GPO city, where Collins met his Shadow
  2. 7. Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech city
  3. 11. Paradise where appetite sleeps
  4. 12. Charlotte's metallic widow, Eddie's maiden
  5. 13. Mirror's broken at VMA spotlight theft
  6. 14. Titanic's departure port
  7. 15. 666's aerial guide through nocturnal hours
  8. 16. Plain of Jars nation, where 'ravens' secretly flew
  9. 17. Bletchley's Colossus count by war's end
Down
  1. 1. Locomotive child's reptilian motion
  2. 3. Manhattan Project codename
  3. 4. Peacekeeping force color
  4. 5. Where serpents coil 'round Mr. Hudson's garden
  5. 6. Fearless archer's numerical obsession
  6. 8. Landing craft used an Normandy
  7. 9. Ancient prophecy's generational echo
  8. 10. Bletchley's Colossus count by war's end
  9. 14. Midnights before dawn turned scarlet