Across
- 2. qualified, efficient, competent
- 3. sudden, blunt, curt
- 5. hocus-pocus
- 8. first inhabitants of a region
- 10. overhead
- 11. in flower
- 12. irregular, deformed, unnatural
- 14. without trickery or concealment
- 17. cleansing of the body by water
- 18. on fire, eager
- 20. to abhor, regard with disgust
- 22. in line with
- 24. futile, incomplete
- 27. abolish, repeal by official action
- 28. to exist in plenty
Down
- 1. renounce an oath, recant
- 3. in a foreign land
- 4. hateful, repulsive
- 5. shorten, condense
- 6. premature expulsion of a fetus
- 7. possessed of physical strength and fitness
- 9. on or in a ship
- 13. the ending of slavery
- 15. aptitude, capability
- 16. to wear or rub away, to remove by friction
- 17. refuse or deny
- 19. to do away with
- 20. the act of wearing away by friction, chafing of the skin
- 21. abrasive
- 23. contemptible, small-spirited, fallen to a low estate
- 25. a place of continued residence
- 26. around, on all sides