9 Across: Protective footwear worn on top of the normal footwear
11 Across: In North America a hired murderer
32 Across In music, to be performed in a disturbed or vigourous manner.
1 Down: Also known as palay, of genus Wrightia, with hard white wood
3 Down: Of or relating to the skin
7 Down: A group of characters that can be treated as a unit by a computer program