Across
- 3. A dissenting clique
- 5. Showing pensive sadness
- 6. A chronic drinker
- 8. Push for something
- 13. Make up for
- 14. Mature male goose
- 16. Avoid one's assigned duties
- 17. Large deep serving dish with a cover
- 18. A sooth three-beat gate
- 21. Get by special effort
- 22. A notable achievement
- 24. Intended to placate
Down
- 1. Too old to be useful
- 2. Rebuke formally
- 4. In a joyous,carefree, or unconcerned manor
- 5. Birth
- 7. Showing a brooding ill humor
- 9. Morally degraded
- 10. Fairly large
- 11. A cry of sorrow and grief
- 12. Play boisterously
- 15. Of an obscure nature
- 19. Being in a tense state
- 20. To fix firmly
- 23. Fruit that has fallen from the tree