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Do market-makers often act as a taker (cross the spread) in other markets or assets while hedging?

Yes, the market maker, MM, while delivering liquidity in off-runners, i.e. the less liquid instruments, from time to other takes liquidity (that's the market-taking in the question) in the most liquid ...
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Do market-makers often act as a taker (cross the spread) in other markets or assets while hedging?

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes, but not always and it depends on a tonne of reasons like fee structure, spread, rebates, hedging requirements at the time etc etc. Fundamentally, (ignoring rebates)...
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