This is a crossword puzzle
Across
- 1. A loud noise or outcry.
- 3. The process of being heaved upward.
- 4. To deflect or ward off.
- 8. A projecting part of a fortification.
- 10. A countercharge.
- 11. To express sharp criticism regarding (an act, for example).
- 13. A change or variation.
- 15. A long angry speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature; a diatribe.
- 16. Modest and reserved in manner or behavior.
- 17. Totally or offensively conspicuous or obtrusive.
- 18. Having an abundance or excess of flesh or fat.
- 21. A gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break.
- 22. A great noise, as of a crowd.
- 23. Stringy and tough.
Down
- 2. Is a sea serpent noted in theology and mythology.
- 5. difficult to understand or interpret; impenetrable.
- 6. To walk at a leisurely pace.
- 7. So absurd or incongruous as to be laughable.
- 9. To complain or whine tearfully.
- 12. Not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
- 14. A ban or inhibition resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.
- 15. Implied by or inferred from actions or statements.
- 18. Any of various tropical marine gastropod mollusks chiefly of the family Strombidae, having edible flesh and a large spiral shell often with a flared lip.
- 19. Unable to speak.
- 20. Emitting light, especially in the dark; shining.