Crossword 9

 

Across
1.A space telescope
3.Most damaging part of a hurricane
4.Houdini stage prop
7.An ideal place or state
9.A bunt in baseball that advances the base runner
10.Nonsense
11.March's birthstone
14.Acidity or alkalinity
16.Uninterrupted
17.Reckless
18.Inheritance factors
Down
2.Practical
5.Eskimo canoe goes both forwards and backwards (cryptic-palindrome)
6.Your rope Ian, sounds continental (cryptic-sound alikes)
7.Tireless
8.Consider
9.Device for changing the connections in an electrical circuit
12.Organisms that drift near the surface of salt and fresh water
13.Inspired
15.This may have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs

Solution