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Across 4. a person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed 7. causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: 8. (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe. 9. a city or town that has corporate status and local government. 10. move or travel fast. 14. someone who specializes in the study of reptiles and amphibians. 15. a large, carnivorous, synapsid fossil reptile of the Permian period, with long spines on its back supporting a sail-like crest. 16. depressing; dreary.

Down 1. an open-roofed entrance hall or central court in an ancient Roman house. 2. an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end. 3. having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully. 5. relating to or denoting the earliest period of the Mesozoic era, between the Permian and Jurassic periods. 6. the official power to make legal decisions and judgments 11. the scientific study of sight and the behavior of light, or the properties of transmission and deflection of other forms of radiation. 2. 12. thick, dark brown syrup obtained from raw sugar during the refining process, a version of which is used in baking. 13. intention or purpose.