Puzzle 1

Bram __; creator of Gothic count

Desert __, code for Gulf War's military campaign

Motion for someone to approach

Downgrade someone's status at work

Nibbled grass on a pasture

Earth metal, Ba, is the basis of medical "meals"

Of spring

Leather jacket-clad group in Grease

Applaud, compliment

__ and Lacey, New York women police detectives

Soaked in perspiration

Cutlery for eating soup

Perforated ball used in indoor baseball

Jug used to serve water at a restaurant

Name for a Hindu temple

Political prisons in the USSR

__ and Lyudmila, opera features magic and a dwarf

English translation of "caveat emptor": Buyer __

A Trojan and son of Priam; killed by Achilles