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High Tension

A gridlocked state of affairs.

A tense grid focused on the vocabulary of conflict, suspense, and power. Features wordplay, current events, and history.

By PuzzledCross

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Across

1.A distinctive vibe, maybe menacing
5.Syrian leader in a long-running civil war
7.Gets high in a conflict?
9.Lured into a trap
11.George, director of zombie onslaughts
12.Prepared to fire
13.Spotted by the enemy

Down

1.___ of aggression
2.Lacking a discernible pattern, like chaos
3.___ power, often by force
4.A focused beam, sometimes used as a weapon
6.Formally break away, as a state might
8.Disturbingly strange, like a silent battlefield
10.Felled in a fight

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