14 March 2025
Across
- 2. anger and bitterness : harsh or biting sharpness especially of words, manner, or feelings
- 3. a fake treatment that looks and is given like a real treatment, but has no therapeutic benefit
- 5. boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions
- 6. to experience a deep and painful regret for a past wrongdoing, often accompanied by a sense of guilt and a desire to make amends
- 9. having an eagerness to learn and investigate, especially about things that aren't one's own business
- 12. to follow a set of rules no matter what. The rules might be religious, philosophical, or made-up
- 13. to seize and hold in the custody of the law: to take possession of
- 16. to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring. 2.: to increase in numbers
- 18. immeasurably or incalculably small
- 21. skill or expertise in a particular activity or field; bravery in battle
- 22. various changes in your voice when speaking
- 25. giving people what they deserve, hitting them back with equal force to a blow they have struck, and treating someone as they have treated others
- 26. a shape that is longer than it is wide
- 30. characterized by abundant growth: abundantly and often extravagantly rich and varied : prolific
- 32. to spread something thickly on something else
- 34. lacking depth or thoroughness, and often has negative connotations
- 35. they are making a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that usually indicates pain, disgust, disapproval, or sometimes, a wry look intended to be humorous
- 36. cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness; a quick and eager response or action
Down
- 1. characterized by the desire to harm others
- 4. no legal parents because of the death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation from or loss of both parents
- 7. directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc. looking or directed backward
- 8. characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary : commonplace
- 10. unlucky; luckless; unfortunate
- 11. the variety of all living things and their interactions
- 14. to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring. 2. : to increase in numbers
- 15. the end point or final stage of something you've been working toward or something that's been building up
- 17. a person sent by one government or political leader to another to take messages or to take part in discussions
- 19. the basic physical systems of a business, region, or nation and often involves the production of public goods or production processes
- 20. the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge
- 23. the most important or serious part of a matter, problem, or argument
- 24. showing that you find a bad or difficult situation slightly amusing; using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humor
- 27. the ability to predict or the action of predicting what will happen or be needed in the future
- 28. having the ability to understand or know something without using evidence or reasoning
- 29. very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail; cleanliness
- 31. a demand or request made by proper authority. a request for supplies
- 33. an easy or painless death, or the intentional ending of the life of a person suffering from an incurable or painful disease at his or her request