Things Fall Apart

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Across
  1. 3. oldest son to first wife
  2. 5. (V) - to change for the better; improve
  3. 6. -- large living quarters of the head of the family
  4. 8. (V) - to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand
  5. 10. foo -- food made from yams that serves a chief role in the annual Feast of the New Yam
  6. 13. (Adj.) - beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage
  7. 16. -- musical instrument; a kind of gong
  8. 17. (N) - a soldier or other person set to guard an entrance
  9. 19. Bestfriend
  10. 20. (Adj.) - having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless;
  11. 21. (N) - a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use
Down
  1. 1. colonial
  2. 2. (Adj.) - feeble or weak in body or health, especially because of age; ailing
  3. 4. Farther
  4. 7. -- village playground
  5. 9. 2nd wife
  6. 11. -- changeling; a child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn
  7. 12. (V) - to cause to adopt a different religion, political doctrine, opinion, etc.
  8. 14. (Adj.) – not intentional
  9. 15. nut -- ogene -- musical instrument; a kind of gong
  10. 18. -- most valuable cash crop grown in the village
  11. 19. (Adj.) - indicating the nature of a future event, for good or evil; foreboding;threatening