Informal contraction that's appropriately spelled with letters from "buttload"
8A
Palindromic feminine name
Verticali
1D
___ worse than death
2D
Kompromat
3D
Palindromic feminine name
4D
Palindromic feminine name
5D
Pope who ruled for 2 months in the year 903 before being deposed, imprisoned, and possibly murdered by Antipope Christopher or his own successor Sergius III (You obviously remember this from history class, right?)