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5×5 Symmetrical Word Boxes

Word Boxes are like miniature crossword puzzles, except that each word is filled in across and down the grid. That is, the answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes?

#1
5x5 grid
  1. complete environment
  2. not this one
  3. poetic device
  4. assumption
  5. foreboding

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#2
5x5 grid
  1. Alexander
  2. musical form
  3. furnish
  4. clay hut
  5. dryer

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#3
5x5 grid
  1. unpopular poker play
  2. board game
  3. the previous generation
  4. fix
  5. late

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#4
5x5 grid
  1. around
  2. anchorage place
  3. talk pompously
  4. speak
  5. not here

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#5
5x5 grid
  1. bad place to leave someone in
  2. useful
  3. unwavering
  4. hold on
  5. yard delimiter

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#6
5x5 grid
  1. joint
  2. genus of coniferous trees
  3. hold firm
  4. happen
  5. use this word to ask someone's location

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#7
5x5 grid
  1. meeting of opposed forces
  2. weapon
  3. electro-negative element
  4. search
  5. the fifth was a Shakespeare subject

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#8
Tough one! 5x5 grid
  1. sulk walk
  2. a type of mostly nocturnal ungulate
  3. judge
  4. chop fine
  5. feather maintenance technique

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#9
5x5 grid
  1. media anthology
  2. apartment security
  3. dull
  4. treatment
  5. hand-to-hand fight

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#10
5x5 grid
  1. wanderer
  2. big
  3. deserve
  4. Shakespearean remark to audience
  5. redirect

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