Across
- 3. the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth
- 6. a firm hold or grip
- 8. happening quickly or promptly
- 9. a tool with a broad flat blade and typically upturned sides, used for moving coal, earth, snow or other material
- 10. the air taken into or expelled from the lungs
- 13. a collection of things or quantity of material tied or wrapped up together
- 15. compress or squeeze forcefully so as to break, damage, or distort in shape
- 16. deprive of feeling or responsiveness
- 17. a declaration or assurance that one will do a particular thing or that a particular thing will happen
- 18. unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous
Down
- 1. wild or distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion
- 2. any of the flat appendages growing from a bird's skin and forming its plumage
- 4. the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.,
- 5. with no one or nothing in between
- 7. firm and stable in shape; not liquid or fluid
- 10. a small bubble on the skin filled with serum and caused by friction, burning, or other damage
- 11. praise or celebrate (something)
- 12. move unsteadily from side to side
- 14. the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity
- 15. causing or meant to cause laughter