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Across

1. extremely fruitful

4. lack or scarcity

5. to deprive or leave desolate

7. a circumstance or reason that justifies a thoguht, work, or deed

9. to calm or bring to a state of peace

12. an agreement between persons to meet at a certain place and time

13. habitual criminal

14. explicitly expressed or stated

15. to make more bearable or satisfactory

Down

2. implied rather than stated directly

3. a thing that is indispensable or necessary

6. a dilemma

8. pertaining to a relative comparison

10. dauntless or doggedly fearless

11. to crash or violently come into contact with

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