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Across
  1. 1. – During the family reunion, the youngest cousin secretly switched everyone's name cards at the dinner table just to watch their confused reactions. He laughed the entire time but made sure no one was actually upset.
  2. 3. – After spending eight months training together for a disaster relief mission, the volunteers developed such a strong sense of trust that they could anticipate one another's actions during emergencies without speaking.
  3. 5. – For the first time in the university's 150-year history, every class was canceled for an entire semester because of an event that administrators had never experienced or planned for.
  4. 6. – Even after a customer became angry and blamed the cashier for a mistake she didn't make, the employee remained patient, smiled, and calmly helped resolve the situation.
  5. 7. – Students in a graduate-level engineering program are expected to solve complex problems, defend their reasoning, and revise their work multiple times before receiving credit. Many students find the expectations overwhelming.
  6. 9. – While excavating a desert site, archaeologists uncovered pottery, tools, and written symbols from a civilization that disappeared thousands of years before modern countries even existed.
  7. 10. – Although Maya had promised herself she would stop checking social media while studying, the constant notifications eventually became too tempting, and she spent the next two hours scrolling instead of preparing for her exam.
  8. 11. – Whenever another wolf entered the area, the pack immediately began growling, marking trees, and chasing the intruder away to protect the land they considered their own.
Down
  1. 2. – After receiving a $5,000 scholarship refund, Marcus spent nearly all of it on expensive shoes, electronics, and weekend trips. A month later, he couldn't afford the textbooks required for his classes.
  2. 4. – During a six-hour road trip, the GPS signal kept disappearing for a few minutes, then returning without warning. Because of this, the driver repeatedly missed exits and had to rely on paper maps.
  3. 8. – Because the nearest hospital was nearly an hour away and public transportation was unavailable, many residents relied on neighbors to drive them to medical appointments.