The circuit

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Across
  1. 4. A system of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced.
  2. 6. Gently calmed or relieved pain.
  3. 8. A dilapidated, old car.
  4. 9. Frontera: The border (between Mexico and the US).
  5. 10. A Mexican laborer allowed into the US for seasonal work.
Down
  1. 1. In a way that cannot be avoided.
  2. 2. Circuit: The pattern of traveling from farm to farm to work, as mentioned in the book's title.
  3. 3. A person who moves regularly in order to find work, usually in agriculture.
  4. 5. To recognize or treat as different.
  5. 7. Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.