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Across
  1. 4. Emma Woodhouse's favorite pastime, somewhat meddlesome
  2. 5. Elizabeth Bennet's journey from pride to this
  3. 8. What society places above all else in Austen's world
  4. 10. What makes a match "advantageous" in Regency terms
  5. 12. What Mr. Darcy initially lacks, but ultimately proves in abundance
  6. 15. What all three novels examine deeply
  7. 16. What Emma believes she excels at (incorrectly at first)
  8. 17. What every good proposal must earn
  9. 18. What kind of match Jane Austen's society expects a woman to secure
  10. 19. What Darcy struggles to overcome
  11. 20. Darcy's defining shift, from pride to this
  12. 21. The question hidden beneath every Austen courtship
Down
  1. 1. What matchmaking often results in in Emma
  2. 2. What Cromwell must maintain to survive court politics
  3. 3. Lizzy Bennet's sharpest weapon
  4. 6. What Thomas Cromwell must constantly navigate in Wolf Hall
  5. 7. The perspective through which all these stories are told
  6. 9. What grows between characters before love is admitted
  7. 11. What makes a proposal sincere
  8. 13. Mr. Knightley's defining trait toward Emma
  9. 14. A key requirement in Austenian romance