Puzzle 1

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Across
  1. 2. - A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  2. 5. - To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
  3. 6. - Something that is easy
  4. 7. - A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
  5. 8. - A cutting-down of timber.
Down
  1. 1. - An automobile.
  2. 2. - Without doubt, surely.
  3. 3. - Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
  4. 4. - A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
  5. 5. - A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.