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Across
  1. 2. Determine or seek opinions, votes
  2. 8. Surrender
  3. 9. Small group of people secretly united to promote their own interests
  4. 11. Excellent penmanship
  5. 12. Shrewd, thrifty
  6. 15. Make shiny by rubbing polish
  7. 17. Youthful, immature, unexperienced
  8. 18. One of the hereditary classes in Hindu society, social stratification, prestige
  9. 21. Destruction of life, the killing of a large number of people
  10. 22. Ill-humored, irritable, bad tempered, uncooperative
  11. 23. Chief, most important
  12. 25. Faultfinding
  13. 26. Good-fellowship, mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together
  14. 28. Support, prop up (noun: a structure of stone or brick to strengthen a wall)
Down
  1. 1. Discordant, inharmonious
  2. 3. Unpredictable, fickle, changing frequently in loyalties and affections
  3. 4. Coax, wheedle, persuade to do something
  4. 5. Malicious misrepresentation, slander
  5. 6. Beg, mooch, panhandle, beg in the street
  6. 7. Disaster, misery
  7. 10. Collection or authoritative list of books, rule or principle frequently religious
  8. 11. Frank, overly honest
  9. 12. Petty criticism, fault finding
  10. 13. Full-bosomed, plump, jolly
  11. 14. Insincere expressions of piety, hypocritical, jargon of thieves
  12. 16. Make false statements about
  13. 17. Hardened, unfeeling
  14. 19. Distortion, burlesque
  15. 20. Fleshly, related to sexual needs
  16. 22. Ability, quality
  17. 23. Punishment, severe criticism
  18. 24. Spacious
  19. 26. Hiding place
  20. 27. Give an imitation that ridicules