Across
- 2. avoid one's assigned duties
- 4. the act of hiding and waiting to make a surprise attack
- 5. without interruption
- 6. deserving of scorn or disrespect
- 16. beat the seeds out of a grain
- 17. a notable achievement
- 18. deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- 19. petty or reluctant in giving or spending
- 20. easily managed
- 21. work hard
- 23. of an obscure nature
- 24. a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
Down
- 1. fruit that has fallen from the tree
- 3. put on leather straps fitted to a draft animal
- 7. showing sustained enthusiasm with unflagging vitality
- 8. after death
- 9. marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
- 10. Birth
- 11. without advance preparation
- 12. propel with force
- 13. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- 14. a formal expression by a meeting, agreed to by a vote
- 15. raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- 22. a loud, harsh, or strident noise
- 23. material consisting of seed coverings and pieces of stem