Riddle-cryptic 54

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If careful means full of care, and stressful full of stress, / A certain timid dwarf is full of parties, you might guess.

Horizontales

1A
If careful means full of care, and stressful full of stress, / A certain timid dwarf is full of parties, you might guess.
5A
It's an endearing family nickname. That's one clue; here's another: / It's a knot tied by your cousin's uncle's sister's brother's mother.
6A
Americans, for the most part, use it each and every day. / They use it when there's something that they have a need to say. / Angles and Saxons forged it; to them a "Thanks so much!" / We should also thank the Romans, French, Norse, and (a little bit?) the Dutch.

Verticales

1D
The military brass who managed the forts that dotted the western frontier / Sanctioned use of this brass to wake people up -- 'twas something the soldiers would hear.
2D
O! Does language include such words! These informal words that purists eschew! / (If you look real close, you'll see that it does-- and not just in one way, but two.)
3D
The playful soldier, entertaining as can be, / Mushrooms into this kingdom of life, you'll agree.
4D
This is someone who mooches off others. He's no better than a blood sucking worm. / (Take away an E, and he'd be just as bad -- "leering pig" would be the technical term.)