Across
- 4. Innocent and trustful
- 6. Stories, fables
- 8. Intense sorrow
- 9. "___ is me!"
- 10. One's individuality
- 13. Linguistic units
- 14. White noise, perhaps
- 15. Apprehensive state
- 17. Lack of success
- 21. Game for one
- 24. Central Asian Country
- 25. Intellect; care
Down
- 1. Composition in verse
- 2. One might be hatched
- 3. Extreme anxiety or pain
- 5. Be optimistic
- 7. Abandon hope
- 8. Become an adult
- 9. Producer of wrinkles, it's said
- 11. Yet to come
- 12. Emotion causing quaking
- 16. What makes you you
- 18. "Where the heart is"
- 19. Recognized, familiar
- 20. ___ soul
- 22. Leave speechless
- 23. "There was the time I ..."