2: Someone who pays for goods or services; they are said to be always right.

5: Opposite of thin

7: Opposite of remove

9: MD's specialty

10: Speed competitions held at a specified time on a regular course; 'My grandpa is a big fan of horse ______.'

11: Draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs.

13: A number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest.

14: Synonym of 'clean'

16: Water frozen in the solid state.

17: Writer's point

18: Plural form of 'rose.'

19: One part in ten.

20: To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.

23: Opposite of seek

24: A type of fuel.

25: One of the digits of the foot.

26: Interim report inits.

27: Feeling or showing worry or solicitude.

1: Fallback strategy

3: To extinguish; 'Put ______ the fire.'

4: Opposite of inexperienced

5: Plural form of 'factory.'

6: Opposite of tasty

8: Opposite of live

9: The company was ______ in 1855.

10: Plural form of 'restaurants.'

12: In a desert, this process occurs faster than precipitation.

14: Synonym of 'refuge'

15: He stole from the rich to give to the poor.

21: QB's error

22: Relatively large in size or number or extent; the _______ white shark.

24: 'You don't say'