Across
- 1. Intelligent, perceptive, quick to understand and learn
- 3. To act in a way that is harsh, critical and intended to be hurtful
- 7. In a generally agreeable manner
- 8. Men who sit around the store on the barrels bragging and exaggerating to make themselves sound like hero's
- 9. English writer, inventor, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the US
- 10. Disease of the joints that causes pain, stiffness, and swelling.
Down
- 2. A physical punishment for justice or revenge. Hot tar is poured on to the victim before covering them in feathers
- 4. Exhibiting assertiveness, hostility or combativeness
- 5. A person in the northern states who agreed with the South during the Civil War
- 6. One's strong point