Across
- 5. circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
- 8. deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable
- 9. difficult to analyze, understand, explain
- 10. a heavy, drenching rain.
- 11. to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings
- 13. a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster
- 16. a mental feeling, especially a state of excited feeling.
- 18. any serious speech, discourse, or exhortation, especially on a moral issue.
- 19. to have in mind as something to be done or brought about; plan
- 20. food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase
Down
- 1. any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera
- 2. a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- 3. stately, majestic, or dignified
- 4. any of various groups of stars to which definite names have been given
- 6. downright or absolute, completely
- 7. continuing without change; enduring; steadfast
- 9. of the nature of or involving crime.
- 12. a customary or regular course of procedure.
- 14. the state or feeling of being proud
- 15. to enroll, usually voluntarily, for military service
- 17. a mental or emotional impression produced, as by a painting or a speech.