Puzzle 1
Across
- 2. nimble-witted
- 5. premature burial
- 7. investor who is sold shares by private placement
- 9. divination using rings
- 10. doctrine that objects of cognition are real
- 11. preventing nightmares
- 12. like light
- 14. grit from an axle; stone or metal filings
- 15. male sexual partner
- 16. means of ending legislative debate
- 17. mouldy; musty
Down
- 1. anything with poisonous juices
- 2. in heraldry, the colour green
- 3. painted thickly
- 4. of, like or pertaining to fluid-carrying vessels
- 6. theory that self-existence is the only certainty
- 8. shaped like a scalpel
- 9. aquatic herbivorous mammal like the manatee
- 10. study of the nose
- 13. getting up on the wrong side of the bed