summer

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Across
  1. 3. to overcome, to mitigate
  2. 7. local distribution channel (7,5)
  3. 8. drinking trough
  4. 9. beyond that (2-4)
  5. 11. to take over the reins (7,2,6)
  6. 14. to persist
  7. 15. but yet, however
  8. 16. bollard, boundary marker
  9. 17. to solve
Down
  1. 1. disrupting, troubling
  2. 2. to highlight (6,2,7)
  3. 4. dryness
  4. 5. livestock farming
  5. 6. summer fête
  6. 10. herds or flocks
  7. 12. sheep pen
  8. 13. locked