Ambrose Bierce: "Immortality: A toy which people cry for/ And on their knees _____ for/ Dispute, contend, and lie for/ And if allowed/ Would be right proud/ Eternally to die for."
7A
Wait for teenagers to come home, say
8A
Fennel-like flavor
9A
Dulce de _____
Down
1D
_____ temperature
2D
Conjecture
3D
Eye-related
4D
Dirty old snow
5D
First book of Herman Melville, which gave the author notoriety as "the man who lived among the cannibals"