Crossword Puzzle#3

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Across
  1. 2. Save from destruction
  2. 7. Give comfort to
  3. 8. Keep from danger
  4. 9. Gain by labour
  5. 10. Write a dedication to someone in a book
  6. 12. Prevent from getting air
  7. 15. 1994 film set on a bus
  8. 16. Dispossess (of)
  9. 17. Give counsel to
Down
  1. 1. Have a favourable effect on
  2. 2. Break into fragments
  3. 3. Organ of sight
  4. 4. Hold up to derision
  5. 5. Bring to a finish
  6. 6. Defeat or humiliate utterly
  7. 7. Gain by labour
  8. 11. Be equivalent to
  9. 13. Injure with hot liquid
  10. 14. Stimulate creative activity
  11. 15. To question people in a poll