Across
- 4. deserving contempt or scorn
- 8. an owner of a store or other business
- 11. capable of recovering quickly from misfortune
- 12. to spread throughout
- 13. to reject bluntly; to drive back
- 14. to try to equal; to imitate
Down
- 1. to install in office
- 2. to call forth; to produce
- 3. very painful
- 5. short and to the point
- 6. to cause a lowering of self-esteem; degrading
- 7. having a strong desire for; eager, enthusiastic
- 9. chaotic; unruly
- 10. abrupt in manner or speech, gruff
- 12. a fictitious name used by an author; a pen name