Crossword Puzzle 11

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Across
  1. 6. belittle or degrade
  2. 8. no longer existing or functioning
  3. 9. mystery or riddle
  4. 10. a servile flatterer
  5. 12. to destroy
  6. 15. difficult to understand
  7. 16. keenness in observing and understanding
  8. 19. generous or forgiving
  9. 23. get rid of: abolish
  10. 24. certain, not to be doubted or denied
  11. 26. a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
  12. 28. trickery
  13. 30. to replace
  14. 31. to mock contemptuously
  15. 33. intended to be understood by a small group
  16. 34. a new convert, beginner, novice
  17. 35. to praise highly
  18. 37. easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
  19. 39. degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile, complete and unrelieved
  20. 40. to remove objectionable content before publication
Down
  1. 1. a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
  2. 2. group of attendants
  3. 3. monarch
  4. 4. seeking to promote the welfare of others
  5. 5. full or praise
  6. 7. isolated
  7. 11. to urge with repeated coaxing
  8. 13. the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim
  9. 14. selflessness
  10. 17. to thwart
  11. 18. stopping and beginning again, sporadic
  12. 20. characteristic peculiar to an individual
  13. 21. to squash
  14. 22. fawning and servile
  15. 25. clumsy social error
  16. 27. to mutually take or give
  17. 29. someone or something that is abandoned or neglected
  18. 32. identifying with another’s situation
  19. 36. adhering to the traditional
  20. 38. prominent