Across
- 2. Mad or insane
- 5. Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
- 8. A thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else
- 12. Relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
- 13. An act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure
- 14. A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger
- 15. A surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way
- 16. Control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously
- 17. Capture the fascinated attention of someone
Down
- 1. Quick to notice things
- 2. Feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with
- 3. An agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions
- 4. Refuse to allow (something)
- 6. (of a person) being preoccupied with or constantly worrying about something
- 7. An inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism
- 9. Complete destruction or obliteration
- 10. Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious
- 11. Extreme scarcity of food
- 12. In a manner that shows a lack of courage or confidence
- 18. In a manner that is unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses