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Across 1. Showing pleasure or contentment. 4. An intense feeling of deep affection. 8. The Merchant of Venice. Money lender 9. Form one's features into a pleased, kind, or amused expression, typically with the corners of the mouth turned up. 10. Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth. 11. Who speak Gbe language in a west African country. 13. Feel deep respect or admiration for. 15. Another term for harmonica. 17. The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals.

Down 2. Having a strong feeling of or showing annoyance, displeasure, or hostility. 3. From New Zealand 5. A group of instrumentalists. 6. Low area of land with a river or stream flowing through 7. Feeling or showing great pleasure. 8. Having an even and regular surface or consistency; free from perceptible projections, lumps. 12. Diffuse astronomical object in outer space. 14. Preceeds sesame. 16. A small cake or cookie, typically a meringue or a touch with the lips.