first 6 chapters in, "The Grapes of Wrath"

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Across
  1. 2. Held by the banks.
  2. 4. The "cat" that drives people off their land.
  3. 6. Being lost by farmers.
  4. 9. Where men travel and dust rises.
  5. 11. What families are forced to leave.
  6. 12. A rare, brief event.
  7. 13. The consequence of their situation
  8. 15. The daily reality.
  9. 16. Where Tom was incarcerated.
  10. 17. The entity taking the land.
  11. 18. The vehicle Tom hitches a ride in.
Down
  1. 1. The resolve of the people.
  2. 3. The protagonist, Tom Joad, and other struggling farmers.
  3. 5. Shriveled and dying.
  4. 7. The defining condition of the land.
  5. 8. The central unit of the Joads.
  6. 10. Pervasive, a mixture with the air.
  7. 11. Diminishing among the people.
  8. 14. The Joads' property.
  9. 15. Its rays weakening.