QUACK words #8

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Across
  1. 2. to tear down; demolish; level to the ground:
  2. 3. struck with overwhelming shock or amazement;sudden fright or horror
  3. 4. strenuous; laborious; difficult
  4. 5. fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor
  5. 7. any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration
  6. 9. to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry
  7. 12. a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art
  8. 13. logically unsound; deceptive; misleading
  9. 15. an exclusive group; clique
  10. 16. a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock
Down
  1. 1. to scold; rebuke
  2. 3. into separate parts; in or into pieces
  3. 6. surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature
  4. 7. rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy
  5. 8. a concise list or guide
  6. 10. easily provoked to anger; very irritable
  7. 11. unreal; imaginary; visionary
  8. 12. agreeable, suitable, or pleasing in nature or character
  9. 14. a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings.
  10. 17. with a turn or twist to one side; askew