Across
- 3. something done in preparation for something else
- 4. thing regarded as more important than another
- 5. group of words established by usage as having a meaning not based on the individual words themselves
- 6. fall or drop straight down at a fast speed
- 7. done with great care and thoroughness
- 10. create or perform spontaneously or without preparation
- 12. own
- 13. marked by exactness and accuracy or detail
- 14. extremely large or great
- 15. say or estimate that something will happen in the future
Down
- 1. difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation
- 2. preconceived opinion not based on reason
- 7. express the meaning of something written or spoken using different words
- 8. unavoidable
- 9. important or famous
- 10. catch fire
- 11. subject (someone) to hostility or ill-treatment
- 12. state of being extremely poor
- 14. having or showing no skill
- 15. imitation of a style with exaggeration for comic effect