Filmoptic - the beginning (January’s films)

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Across
  1. 3. Sounds like a lament with a definite article at the start (3,5)
  2. 6. Initially a violent animal at the start with a backwards rat at the end (6)
  3. 9. [see #2] (6,2 continued *…) (5)
  4. 11. Designed with the East at the end (5)
  5. 12. [#3] All opposite to down and chaos, in HK (10) [*continue #3] (5,6)
  6. 13. Greetings…not! (9)
  7. 16. [see #3] (10 continued*...) (5,6)
  8. 17. Story-telling people saga by SS (3,9)
  9. 18. Inside titillation for the earth is found (4)
Down
  1. 1. [see #1] (1,3,6 continued*…) (4)
  2. 2. A North game messed around, maybe a three instead of East (5)
  3. 4. The slippery end part of the film title being born again (2,1,5)
  4. 5. Take an early human (in Mesopotamia) alone finally but missing the beginning and end (7)
  5. 7. Sort out New York in the opposite to black (7)
  6. 8. Replace this one in the classroom (3,10)
  7. 10. Sounds like thanks but don’t do that to everyone! (3)
  8. 14. [#2] Put together a famous building without the state possessing beacon (6,2) [*continue #2] (5)
  9. 15. [#1] Prayer salutation replacing the East with Adam named after a palindrome (1,3,6) [*continue #1] (4)