Daily Allusions 3

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Across
  1. 2. something that does not deserve worship
  2. 6. keeping people happy to deflect concerns about troubling issues
  3. 7. appearances can be deceptive
  4. 8. to exercise excessive control over someone
  5. 9. a captivating storyteller
Down
  1. 1. a financial burden
  2. 3. the logic does not follow
  3. 4. someone untouched and uninfluenced by society
  4. 5. someone whose predictions are ignored