Solve the ACT/SAT #12 CROSSWORD Puzzle

Clues to the 36 words from the ACT/SAT #12 crossword are below. Note that the hardest 6 words are already solved for you and their definition marked with an asterisk.
(Puzzles answers are at the very bottom of this page.)

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Most Important SAT* Words #1
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Most Important SAT* Words #3
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Most Important SAT* Words #5
Most Important SAT* Words #6
Most Important SAT* Words #7
Most Important SAT* Words #8
Most Important SAT* Words #9
Most Important SAT* Words #10
Most Important SAT* Words #11
Most Important SAT* Words #12 - you are here!
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ANSWERS across:
1* - pas de deux, 4 - apostate, 9 - inhibitory, 10 - denigrate, 13 - renounce, 15 - sophistry, 16 - manifestation, 18 - pseudonym, 21 - philander, 23 - stymie, 24* - interstices, 27 - apocalypse, 28 - inscrutable, 30* - pietism, 31 - dilettante, 32 - efficacy, 33* - littoral, 34 - oblique, 35 - Pentecostal
ANSWERS down:
1 - placebo, 2 - subversion, 3* - chatelaine, 5 - indigenous, 6 - fiasco, 7 - promulgate, 8 - insurgency, 11* - hermeneutics, 12 - facile, 14 - wrought, 17 - elan, 19 - servile, 20 - gyre, 22 - disquisition, 25 - cognitive, 26 - pique, 29 - autonomy

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