Puzzle 1

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Across
  1. 2. painted thickly
  2. 3. preventing nightmares
  3. 4. theory that self-existence is the only certainty
  4. 6. investor who is sold shares by private placement
  5. 9. premature burial
  6. 11. nimble-witted
  7. 12. like light
  8. 13. mouldy; musty
  9. 14. of, like or pertaining to fluid-carrying vessels
  10. 17. divination using rings
  11. 18. doctrine that objects of cognition are real
Down
  1. 1. getting up on the wrong side of the bed
  2. 5. male sexual partner
  3. 7. means of ending legislative debate
  4. 8. anything with poisonous juices
  5. 10. grit from an axle; stone or metal filings
  6. 13. in heraldry, the colour green
  7. 15. study of the nose
  8. 16. shaped like a scalpel
  9. 17. aquatic herbivorous mammal like the manatee