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Across 1. 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 3. Rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment 4. Mussolini’s first name 8. Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system 10. The management of the resources of a community, country, etc., esp. with a view to its productivity. 11. The science or art of teaching 13. Italian Fascist dictator and prime minister (1922-1943) who conducted an expansionist foreign policy, formalized an alliance with Germany (1939), and brought Italy into World War II (1940). Dismissed by Victor Emmanuel III (1943), he led a puppet Nazi government in northern Italy until 1945, when he was assassinated 18. The process or industry of deriving usable materials from waste, by-products, etc. 22. State of being crooked and dishonest 24. Against deleting parts of publications 25. Any general business activity; commercial enterprise

Down 2. Of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces 5. To improve by alteration, correction of error, or removal of defects; put into a better form or condition 6. The possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy 7. The form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is under political authority 9. A visible society of baptized Christians professing the same faith under the authority of the invisible head (Christ) and the authority of the visible head (the pope and the bishops in communion with him) 12. A person exercising absolute power 14. A republic in south Europe 15. The methods or practices of anarchists, as the use of violence to undermine government. 16. The process of coming together 17. Devotion and loyalty to one's own nation; patriotism 19. A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. 20. Mental power, force, or vigor 21. 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. 23. The science or art of political government