Words from Across the Sea

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Across
  1. 2. More precipitation
  2. 3. Mesoamericans would pick these out of their Lucky Charms
  3. 5. A cold and dismal land
  4. 8. Both a card and a cad running for president
  5. 10. A compromise between Seabiscuit and Hardtack
  6. 11. What a little engine thinks as it registers a domain
  7. 14. Humbert Humbert wants to hump her
  8. 15. A feline sorority
  9. 16. Little houses, dogs, and home companions
Down
  1. 1. An unlettered sea turtle
  2. 4. A book full of acres of female-only musical instruments
  3. 5. The greatest Asian nation, spelled properly
  4. 6. The fifth state to ratify, but the only one to brag about it
  5. 7. Un restaurant dans la Vallée de Madison
  6. 9. Found in Alphabet soup
  7. 12. A warm and beauteous land
  8. 13. Banishes Mu-sub-k from the bedroom
  9. 14. Without this, a lumen would be a sausage fest