Across
- 1. a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease
- 3. a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack
- 6. having virtually unlimited authority or influence
- 8. inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness
- 9. to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity
- 10. capable of making a mistake
- 12. singularly evil or productive of evil
- 13. gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed
- 14. to set or close tightly
- 15. Relating to one who makes a show of knowledge
- 16. an excessively intensified sense of well-being, power, or importance
- 17. to become steadily less
Down
- 1. uttered or sounded in one unvarying tone : marked by a sameness of pitch and intensity
- 2. to suffer violent internal excitement
- 4. having, consisting of or relating to a physical material body
- 5. sickeningly unpleasant
- 7. causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or sorrow
- 8. easily broken, cracked, or snapped
- 11. decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue
- 14. to make understandable