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Across 4. To free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant. 5. The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. 7. Exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others; authoritarian; autocratic. 10. A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. 11. Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord. 12. A person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.

Down 1. False or misleading information 2. To deprive (a person) of the right to vote or other rights of citizenship. 3. A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. 6. Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. 8. A system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party. 9. A person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.