Hup!

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Across
  1. 1. Like some voters
  2. 3. The pathway to corporate success, in a manner of speaking
  3. 6. Perpendicular to a plumb line
  4. 7. The one with the cold?
  5. 8. Prepared for action, in Spanish parlance
Down
  1. 1. A guarantee of financial security (two words)
  2. 2. Important to maintain this, for sanity's sake
  3. 4. In microscopy, the viewing sample as prepared
  4. 5. One of the Wright brothers, for example
  5. 7. Less commonly used in taxidermy for brightening skulls