Across

    1. Intense light beam

    4. Had been

    6. ___, what, where, when, why,

    7. Curse

    8. Each of the two

    9. Internet auction site

    12. Keen

    14. Frozen water

    16. Work with shovel

    17. Bet

    Down

    1. Legal system

    2. Yell

    3. Red blotch on skin

    4. Very little

    5. Apologetic

    8. Loaf of whole wheat

    10. Take with you

    11. Large black bird

    13. Joke or trick

    15. Hearing organ