The Gift of the Magi

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Across
  1. 2. extreme stinginess
  2. 5. weight to be carried or borne
  3. 7. causing or fraught with or showing nervousness
  4. 8. wish, long, or crave for
  5. 9. move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
  6. 10. moving quickly and lightly
  7. 11. the act of killing in order to appease a deity
  8. 13. a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
  9. 17. provide with objects or articles that make a room usable
  10. 18. declare formally
  11. 22. be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
  12. 23. flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements
  13. 25. influence or persuade by gentle and persistent urging
  14. 26. extinct elephant widely distributed in the Pleistocene
  15. 28. provoke or stir up
Down
  1. 1. come into possession of
  2. 3. wear off or die down
  3. 4. require as useful, just, or proper
  4. 6. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  5. 12. make lighter or brighter
  6. 14. have an appetite or great desire for
  7. 15. lacking in light; not bright or harsh
  8. 16. marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
  9. 18. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  10. 19. lacking worth or importance
  11. 20. subject to death
  12. 21. an article of clothing
  13. 24. the first of two or the first mentioned of two
  14. 27. moving quickly and lightly