N.O. Easy Clues

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Across
  1. 2. Thinking deeply about melodies
  2. 3. Another missive arrived from the one who dislikes you
  3. 6. Sounds like the top part of your shirt needs stiffening
  4. 8. Is there or is there not hair under your hat?
  5. 11. Portal that opens momentarily is planned for, or wouldn't you say?
  6. 12. When faced, the truth is not pretty
  7. 13. To curl for good – once and for all
  8. 15. Terrible when the screen gets progressively paler
  9. 16. Bullying with photograph, before printing
  10. 18. Use the secondary container for ashes
Down
  1. 1. A detective in an undershirt is outside
  2. 4. A eprechaun walks with one
  3. 5. Successful vomit
  4. 7. A right angled room inside a church seems to be subsiding
  5. 9. A shock that won't kill you - takes Balls to
  6. 10. The simian gangster is astonished, or wouldn't you say?
  7. 14. Wrapped again, I see it's the same every year
  8. 17. We heard she disappeared online