Nonfiction Reading Packet Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. make a mess of
  2. 6. showing or calling for intelligence
  3. 9. patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments
  4. 14. ____ Frank
  5. 17. someone who tries to destroy things
  6. 20. impervious to correction by punishment
  7. 21. disclosures about one’s thoughts or feelings
  8. 23. a morphine derivative found in opium; often used in cough syrup
  9. 25. a vulgar abusive woman
  10. 26. accomplish something because of trickery
  11. 27. persistent and petty criticism
  12. 28. stubbornly sticking to an opinion
Down
  1. 1. decorative handwriting
  2. 2. eight day Jewish holiday celebrating rededication of the Temple
  3. 3. morally despicable, repulsive, obnoxious
  4. 5. acute or chronic pain in the lower back
  5. 6. come into a new country and change residency
  6. 7. be uncomfortably hot
  7. 8. mischievous, poor, raggedly clothed youngsters dispenser
  8. 10. causing dejection
  9. 11. marked by foolish fondness
  10. 12. small harmful animals, difficult to control, like lice or fleas
  11. 13. a knapsack
  12. 15. fussy
  13. 16. an act or expression of criticism and censure
  14. 18. a meeting at an appointed place and time
  15. 19. to criticize sharply
  16. 22. organized massacres of helpless people
  17. 24. regard with feelings of respect
  18. 25. a period of two weeks