The Pit and the Pendulum (Bank: pendulum, agony, endeavored, perish, alluded, notwithstanding, comprehend, despair, earnestness, novel, pervaded, hideous, resolving, treacherous, uniformity, discordant, tumultuously, annihilated, conjecture, impeded)

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Across
  1. 3. distressed, not knowing how to improve a bad situation
  2. 4. pleasantly new and original; not previously encountered
  3. 6. understand
  4. 8. forming conclusions based on inconclusive evidence
  5. 10. in a noisy disorderly manner
  6. 11. a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity - such as is seen in some mechanical clocks
  7. 12. to die
  8. 13. completely destroyed
  9. 15. consistency; being the same
  10. 17. filled
  11. 18. deciding
  12. 19. dangerous
Down
  1. 1. extremely ugly, offensive and/or frightening
  2. 2. sincerity or seriousness
  3. 4. despite
  4. 5. intense suffering
  5. 7. conflicting
  6. 9. tried or attempted
  7. 14. indirectly referenced
  8. 16. stopped from proceeding