Across
- 6. The act of determining one's bearings or settling one's sense of direction.
- 8. A hideous giant in fairy tales and folklore: a monster.
- 9. The outermost or uppermost boundary.
- 10. The plea of having been elsewhere at the time an act was committed.
- 13. Set into a surface so as to form a decorative design, or decorated with a design so formed.
- 14. Formed a ring around.
- 15. A room or closet where clothes are kept or stored.
- 16. The frame or body of a ship exclusive of masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
- 17. Demanding immediate action to fend off disastrous consequences: urgent.
Down
- 1. Struck with crushing force.
- 2. People who go beyond without stopping or noticing usually by chance.
- 3. Not present or not attending.
- 4. Subdivided into 10th or 100th units.
- 5. A ruined village in eastern Virginia, southwest of Williamsburg on the James River, the first permanent settlement in America, settled in 1607.
- 7. A piece of written or printed matter that provides information.
- 11. A projecting strip or cone usually of leather, rubber, or metal fastened to or built into the sole or heel of a shoe to increase traction or provide a firm grip.
- 12. Failing to accord with what is usual, proper, accepted, or right.