A Christmas Carol

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Across
  1. 6. showing tenacity and grim persistence
  2. 9. the process of claiming something back
  3. 12. general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought
  4. 13. extremely bad or unpleasant
  5. 15. sheath for a blade of a sword or dagger
  6. 18. lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward
  7. 19. clever or cunning devices used to trick
  8. 21. expressing an earnest or anxious request; pleading
  9. 22. long narrow wrinkles or grooves
  10. 23. the quality of well-meaning; kindness
Down
  1. 1. deep and solemn respect
  2. 2. having a lot of space inside
  3. 3. cheerful and lighthearted
  4. 4. friendly and cheerful
  5. 5. treating serious issues with deliberate inappropriate humor
  6. 7. condition or process of humiliating or being humiliated
  7. 8. a lament for the dead
  8. 10. mental image of something unpleasant
  9. 11. hanging down loosely
  10. 14. action or state of being forced to do something
  11. 16. relating or inclined to a state of division; split
  12. 17. ask urgently and fervently to do something
  13. 20. low protective wall along the edge of a roof or balcony