Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- A change for the better as a result of correcting abuses
- 2 Across
- Someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884 (plural)
- 3 Across
- A leader in a ___ party who controls votes and dictates appointments
- 6 Across
- In a state of progressive putrefaction
- 7 Across
- A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal
- 8 Across
- A person who operates a farm (plural)
- 9 Across
- A political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City seeking political control
- 11 Across
- Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation (plural)
- 12 Across
- Tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient
- 14 Across
- United States political cartoonist
- 15 Across
- A commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter (plural)
- 16 Across
- A former political ___ in the United States
- 1 Down
- 18th President of the United States
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- Someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite
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- A person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there (plural)
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- A person who is loyal to their allegiance (plural)
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